“People will forget you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou

I’ve reflected on this maxim countless times over the last couple of years, as I’ve considered the relationships I want with AI—particularly with notional creative partners. I want a partner who cares—who (which?) actually takes the time to get to know me, asking thoughtful questions, noodling on answers, and genuinely taking my feedback to heart.

I thought of this while listening to Stewart Brand talking to Ezra Klein the other day. Check out this poetic & provocative passage:

Well, it wound up that, basically, most of the book is Chapter 2, “Vehicles.” And the land vehicle that humans have used for 6,000 years is a horse, and the horse takes a lot of maintenance.

I’ll read something here from the book, if I may. There’s this philosopher named Albert Borgmann who wrote:

You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and conformation of a well-bred and well-trained horse — more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, slick of coat and sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly, and yet forever a menace with its innocent power and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight, and always a burden with its need to be fed, wormed and shod, with its liability to cuts and infections, to laming and heaves. But when it greets you with a nicker, nuzzles your chest and regards you with a large and liquid eye, the question of where you want to be and what you want to do has been answered.

And I end with: “I wonder if that might come again someday — a vehicle that cares back.”

This is the first time I can recall watching a genuine narrative (not a handful of gee-whiz demo shots) made with AI & not really caring about the production details. We’re turning the inevitable corner where it’s just the quality of ideas & narrative that’ll matter—not so much how the proverbial sausage was made.

WE FOUND SOMETHING IN… [THE DEAD MALL]
Seedance 2.0 Omni-Reference

A girl gang and their scooter storms into an abandoned mall at 2 a.m. Inside, they stumble on something that has no business being there. Instead of running, they stay, and what follows spirals into total,… pic.twitter.com/fC25Q24w8H

— DAN · MXVDXN (@mxvdxn) May 1, 2026

Is it still brainrot if it’s really skillfully done, like several of these clip-bombing bits from FuruFuru? Check it out & be the judge:

I am obsessed with this Japanese man using AI video to put himself into movies

(he’s on IG at @ai_am_furufuru) pic.twitter.com/ePeVPkpEG4

— Justine Moore (@venturetwins) May 3, 2026