Human Vulnerability

Lately, there are too many AI-generated videos to count. It's getting harder and harder to tell what's real and what's generated. I notice that we are slowly becoming numb to all of it.

I use various AI tools myself. So I'm not outside of this.

The sensationalistic headlines come daily, almost always loaded with doom and fear. Even when the content itself isn't fear-driven, we still can't look away. We linger, trying to discern whether what we're seeing is human-made or AI-generated. Either way, AI is overstimulating our nervous systems and raising our cortisol levels before we've even had a chance to get acquainted with it.

In the sea of artificially manicured content, it's those unfiltered, unexpected vulnerable moments that I find myself stopping for. Something unscripted slips through, and I notice my attention asking for more.

Maybe that's what makes human vulnerability so compelling right now. It's not something you find in a machine's predictive execution. You can't really train for it.

I wonder if being constantly bombarded with AI news and exposed to AI-generated media is quietly making us crave something more organic. AI is here to stay, and I find it genuinely useful. But there is something about human vulnerability that even the most well-trained machine can't execute.

Instead of the carefully constructed version of ourselves, maybe it's the raw, imperfect inner being that creates real connection. That realness, I think there's a quiet power in it. A momentum of humanness that's hard to manufacture.