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I wanted to make a report on AI that didn’t look like every other report on AI. So no glowing brains and no navy dashboards. I told the story of 2026, the year AI became ordinary, through Renaissance tempera paintings instead.
The hero is my take on Botticelli’s Three Graces, restaged as the report’s verdict: Brilliant (wearing AR glasses), Unreliable (frowning at her phone) and Costly (paying by tap). You enter through an arched window. From there, each chapter pairs one sourced statistic with a scene I painted for it.
It’s independent and short enough to read in one sitting. I did the research, art direction and build myself.
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You have a point but a time is coming when that manual work will be fully automated with Ai.
As most of us are still doing manual work some people are busy training Ai to take over that activities in nearby future
Manual work is always better than ai slop you can use ai for some clips but full video made with ai is unprofessional and a waste of money and resources
The point about people quietly training AI on today's manual tasks is the part most of us underestimate. Do you think the craft shifts to directing and curating those models, rather than disappearing entirely?
This photoshoot never happened...
But the campaign could.
No studio.
No location.
No styling team.
No animal handlers.
No huge production budget.
In a traditional workflow, a high-concept beauty editorial like this would be extremely difficult, expensive and in some cases almost impossible to produce. Different models, exotic animals, controlled lighting, makeup, styling, retouching, logistics, safety and a production crew.
With AI, the creative process changes.
Once the visual direction is locked, I can build a consistent system and generate hundreds of images within the same world: different animals, color palettes, compositions, crops, moods and campaign formats.
This is not about replacing every photoshoot. It is about opening creative territories that were previously too expensive, too risky or too complex to explore.
These are just experiments, but I can easily imagine this kind of visual direction working for beauty, eye makeup, color cosmetics, fragrance or high-impact product launches.
For brands that sell through visuals, the real value of AI is not one beautiful image. It is the ability to test bold campaign ideas faster, then scale the strongest direction into a full visual system.
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