Entries by JonLeland

🎨 Using AI to Express Something Meaningful

AI Creativity ChroniclesBecause it’s never too lateto play with the future. 🎨 A few days of play Over the last few days, I’ve spent a little time playing with the latest and greatest AI image and video models: GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2.0. And something cracked open. ✨ Not in a new feature, neat trick way, but in a wait, this changes things way. And here’s what struck me almost as much as these breakthroughs: most people have no idea this is happening. 👀 Not conceptually — experientially. The…

🎯 Excitement Is Not a Strategy

AI Creativity ChroniclesBecause it’s never too lateto play with the future. 🎬 Practicing in Public This is one of my new, daily Practicing in Public videos on TikTok — a little series I started as my own experiment in Following the Juice. 🧭 Short, unpolished, thinking-out-loud video riffs. A way to show up, stay creatively awake, and let the ideas find me in real time instead of waiting until I’ve got them perfectly figured out. This particular one got at something I’ve been chewing on for a…

🎸 Dylan’s Warning Was About AI (He Just Didn’t Know It)

AI Creativity ChroniclesBecause it’s never too lateto play with the future. “He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying.” Bob Dylan wrote that line in 1964. He had no idea about doom scrolling. No idea about AI-generated content flooding the internet. No idea about algorithms designed to keep you passive, consuming, numb. But he nailed it anyway. Because the crisis he was describing isn’t technological, it’s existential. And it’s been here a lot longer than ChatGPT. AI won’t replace you, unless you…

🎬 I Turned My Webinar Into an AI Video. Here’s the Point.

AI Creativity ChroniclesBecause it’s never too lateto play with the future. I heard my own message in another voice… an AI voice! Not approximately my message. My exact words, my reasoning, the argument I’ve been making for years — delivered by an AI voice generated by NotebookLM, over AI-produced whiteboard-style visuals that were automagically designed and delivered. To be honest, this was a moment of genuine strangeness. I did a kind of double-take. That’s my thinking. And here it is,…

I just recorded something important for you 🎥

I just finished recording something I’ve been thinking about for weeks — and I wanted you to see it. It’s me sharing what I really believe about this moment we’re in — and why I think staying on the sidelines isn’t neutral anymore.