Subject: Kane Parsons, twenty Earth-rotations old, occupation: arranger of moving shadows for the leisure consumption of his species. His specialty is a story-cycle called Backrooms, which simulates the dread of being lost in a structure with no exit — a sensation the locals also call "employment."
Parsons has publicly refused to operate the hallucination engine the rest of his profession is currently sprinting toward. He reports "no enjoyment" from the device. Per the Reseda Council for Vocational Dignity, this places him in the 2.3% of his cohort still willing to perform labor for the sensation of having performed labor.
Of note: he describes the outdoor advertising surfaces of his city as "obvious AI slop" that has become "part of our visual reality." Translated: the species now walks past machine-generated images of other humans selling them objects, and has agreed, collectively, not to mention it.
Contrast specimen: Martin Scorsese, age 82 rotations, a celebrated elder of the same trade, has signed on to advise one of the hallucination firms. He cites prior use of 3D spectacles and a face-youthening filter as precedent. The young refuse the tool; the old embrace it. Generational data inverted from baseline. Recommend further observation before drawing the usual conclusions about which direction this species ages.
Based on the original article "'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Says Using AI 'Defeats the Purpose' of Filmmaking: 'I Get No Enjoyment From Using Those Tools'".
