Hallucination

AI technology is now so astonishingly lifelike, while I am so shocked that I am unable to recognize how today’s image industry has matured into a full simulacrum. It no longer requires clumsy machinery, nor the direct intervention of human operators. It already manifests, through the shaping from data instructions, the appearances so convincing that they blur the boundary between truth and falsehood. On this glowing screen, imagination surpasses reality, narrating possibilities that have no counterpart in our present lives. In projecting visions of the future and regeneration of the past, it leaves nothing concealed, instead creates a shared value.

When the screen powers off, what exactly has just happened? The relative position between human and machine seems to fall into darkness with the vanishing glow. What have been left behind are only the stories of characters within the script in our minds, and the persistence of vision that is the afterimage left by the light stimulus.