Aside from having to navigate racial and beauty biases, I enjoyed this process. I rationalized the time spent as a means to comprehending an amazing tool that was evolving before my eyes — quite literally. But something started to happen. Hollowness. There was a repetition and soulless product always looking back at me. I started to feel that my exploration in AI-generated photo & video needed to come to an end.

The ancient Persians invented horse blinders with the purpose of narrowing the horse’s field of vision to keep it focused on what is directly in front of it while limiting it’s exposure to the environment around them. This blocking of the periphery helped to prevent unpredictable distractions which could ‘spook’ even a mild-tempered horse in certain environments.