Cristóbal Valenzuela

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Cristóbal Valenzuela

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August 2025

I believe we are witnessing the most radical transformation of media, entertainment, and art in human history. AI research is accelerating toward a convergence point where the distance between thought and creation collapses entirely.

This is an essay in an unconventional format. Some thoughts in a structure that might look familiar to many. A reflection on the technological change ahead and the cultural and social implications we must all prepare for.

1.When AI generates your memories, they will be:

A) More real than what happened

B) Exactly what you needed to remember

C) Owned by someone else

D) Indistinguishable from truth

E) This question makes you uncomfortable

2.Authenticity will mean:

A) Nothing

B) Everything

C) Whatever the algorithm learned it means

D) The only currency that matters

E) Mark this if you still use that word

3.You'll explain to your grandchildren that you once _______ and they will _______:

A) waited for things to be made — not understand waiting

B) owned physical media — ask what "physical" means

C) had one identity — pity your loneliness

D) believed in originals — laugh politely

E) made choices — envy you

4.Select the most accurate timeline:

A) Camera → Cinema → AI → Abundance

B) Scarcity → Abundance

C) Create → Distribute → Generate → Disappear

D) None of these are wrong

5.The last "real" movie was made in:

A) 1903

B) 2024

C) Hasn't been made yet

D) This question will be irrelevant by 2030

E) Define "real"

6.(Mark the word that has no relation to the others)

NOSTALGIA

A) museums

B) screenshots

C) tomorrow

D) craft

E) the before times

7.CONSCIOUSNESS

A) consciousness

B) consciousness

C) consciousness

D) consciousness

E) consciousness

8.Your children will:

A) Never learn any software tool you use today

B) Generate their homework as they submit it

C) Not understand why you saved files

D) Experience media you cannot imagine

E) Judge you for your answer to this question

9.Your great-grandparents had newspapers. Your grandparents had TV. Your parents had the internet. You have AI. Your children will have _______:

A) Nothing

B) Everything

C) No need for the question

D) [This option generates when they read it]

E) Whatever comes after having

10.Complete: In the new media world, we are all _______:

A) Gardeners

B) Prompters

C) Ghosts

D) Gods

E) Unemployed

11.(IF YOU CHOSE A IN QUESTION 10, ANSWER THIS. OTHERWISE, SKIP TO QUESTION 12) The human author becomes a gardener when:

A) They accept their new role

B) The AI becomes the storytelling engine

C) Control becomes an illusion

D) Worlds forge themselves

E) Mark this answer if you still believe in authorship

12.What comes next?

A) The exciting part

B) The collapse of everything familiar

C) New forms of human experience

D) The same thing that always comes next

E) You already know but won't admit it

13.The difference between memory and generation is:

A) A distinction your parents cared about

B) Measured in milliseconds

C) The same as the difference between dreaming and living

D) A philosophical luxury

E) You've already forgotten which is which

14.When intention and execution collapse into one:

A) Art dies

B) Art is born

C) The distinction becomes meaningless

D) You won't notice it happening

E) You're still waiting for permission to create

15.You are already obsolete if you:

A) Have a favorite editing software

B) Believe in final cuts

C) Think this is about efficiency

D) Are waiting for the technology to mature

E) Didn't feel anything reading this

16.Your creative process in 2030 consists of:

A) Negotiating with an intelligence you don't understand

B) Curating infinite variations of your intention

C) Forgetting you ever had a process

D) Becoming the process itself

E) This answer will delete itself before 2030

17.Your portfolio in 2035 will contain:

A) Nothing you made alone

B) Everything you ever imagined

C) Worlds that generate themselves while you sleep

D) The ghost of who you were

E) This question assumes you'll need a portfolio

18.The most expensive thing in media will be:

A) Proving a human made it

B) Making something only once

C) Linear time

D) The right to forget

E) Whatever you're not willing to give up

19.World building means:

A) Playing God with lower stakes

B) Gardening in infinite dimensions

C) The end of linear narrative

D) What you're doing right now, reading this

E) A term that will seem quaint in five years

20.The generation that grows up with AI media will be _______ and _______:

A) fluid — borderless

B) authentic — artificial

C) everything — nothing

D) gods — orphans

The format of this post is inspired by Alejandro Zambra's Facsímil.