Why Your AI "Replacement" is Still Stuck in Rehearsal
In an era where everyone is terrified and we are told that AI will write our emails, compose our symphonies etc etc. Yes, AI will improve "productivity." It will generate 10,000 corporate reports in the time it takes you to sneeze. But productivity is not the same as presence . You can use AI to generate a voice that sounds like a human, but you cannot use it to generate the reason why the human is speaking. let’s talk about the original "disrupted" industry: Theatre. The Raw vs. The Rendered Theatre has been around since the Mohenjo-daro folks decided that cave paintings lacked a certain je ne sais quoi . It was codified in the Natyashastra (circa 500 BCE) and physically carved into the Sitabenga Caves of Chhattisgarh by the 3rd century BCE. Meanwhile, commercial cinema in India didn’t even show up until Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra in 1913 . Cinema is the spoiled, tech-obsessed grandchild of the arts. It uses VFS, CGI, and now, AI-generated backgrou...