Filmmaker Valerie Veatch entered the generative AI community in 2024 after OpenAI released Sora, its text-to-video model, to the public. What she found was not creative collaboration. It was racism and sexism baked into outputs, and a community of enthusiasts who did not care.
That indifference is the real subject here. Veatch documents not just biased outputs but the social dynamics of a scene that actively normalizes them. The title is not a provocation for its own sake. It is a thesis.
The full interview at The Verge gets into how Veatch, as a director, processed what she witnessed and what she made from it. The methodology matters as much as the conclusion. Read it for that.
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