{"id":24162,"date":"2026-08-07T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24162"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:38:20","slug":"wait-for-me-penelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/07\/wait-for-me-penelope\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait for me, Penelope&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;A.I. sing of arms and the man&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> Wait\u2014that was the Aeneid, but Imma go for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reimagining of The Odyssey\u2014nailing everything from casting to an apparently generated period-accurate song that actually slaps\u2014demonstrates my long-running contention that when things become amazing enough, we can&#8217;t even process them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People see this and neither marvel at the incredible state of technology (which has leapt forward in just the last couple of weeks), nor point out little shortcomings here &amp; there, nor even get into another fruitless battle about the ethics of AI. Instead, at least from where I sit, I see them simply commenting on the concept &amp; storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, I think, is how it should &amp; will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Odyssey - The Vietnam War (Official Music Video)\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ky-2PL6G3aI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A.I. sing of arms and the man&#8230;&#8221; Wait\u2014that was the Aeneid, but Imma go for it. This reimagining of The Odyssey\u2014nailing everything from casting to an apparently generated period-accurate song that actually slaps\u2014demonstrates my long-running contention that when things become amazing enough, we can&#8217;t even process them. People see this and neither marvel at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24164,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions\/24164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}