Blinding Colors: A Story of Immigration In the Age of Artificial Intelligence

An excerpt from Blinding Colors, a speculative short story blending analog and digital forms — from AI instructions to spoken-word transcripts — to explore the dominance of AI generated content and the human voices that go offline to be heard.

Slide 1 - Client Ask: Rebuild brand trust among human personas who now live and speak exclusively offline.


Your audience is emotionally underfed, yet dopamine-saturated.Online audiences can correctly identify AI-generated content a mere 13% of the time, cementing a crisis of authenticity and misinformation online. The social media channels that once helped personas educate and inspire each other are now inundated by bots. Gone are the days of authentic human connections online: the touching music lyrics in an away message, bonding through baby photos, wanderlust from travel videos, and hoping for true love after “sliding in a DM.”


Your biggest challenge to drive shareholder value is rising above the overwhelming noise of overly polished AI-generated content.

Slide 2: Audience Update

The constant stream of mental stimulation is preventing them from actually feeling something real.
Because they crave real moments of connection with fellow personas, they have made the successful transition into offline forums, where they can exchange the facial expressions and physical touch available only through a real-life encounter. Your audience has been here before: having survived the isolation of a pandemic, they fully understand community is felt best through contact.

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