 The introduction of AI has artists feeling very nervous. To be very honest with you, I am not nervous. Because I came from an era where digital arts was starting to come up and a lot of artists saw were threatened by digital arts. A lot of people said that that was cheating because you don't have to just mix your paint and so on, the software does it for you. But one other day is when people thought like that because now digital arts is a thing. Because at the end of the day you are using your same skill sets, your same artistic skills, your creativity to produce a work of exceptional quality. So I see it two ways. I feel bad in a sense because I understand the level of damage it can't do for you because AI is not just another invention of technology. It's really a big deal. AI is really something big, just like how we used to see in the movies that you know your machines thinking for themselves. This is literally what AI is and at the rate that it's improving, it can replace a lot of what humans can do. So I understand that there's going to be a drastic upheaval in the way things are done right now. Especially in animation and entertainment industry because I personally use AI for creating images and I see how powerful it is, how efficient it is and I know artists whose entire job, maybe not here but in the first world countries and big industries whose entire job is to concept and to draw images for movies and AI can do that for you in like five seconds when people take days and weeks to do those things. So that's an entire job that can be replaced just like that. So that's a real thing that we didn't if and I understand that aspect that's a very serious thing. I see AI as a tool because at the end of the day it came from your mind and you have to be precise when you're using AI. You have to use your skill of description so that the AI can understand. If you don't have this skill, it won't come out the way that you want it. But another reason why I don't see it as a threat, I often think that communication between two human beings is more, I would say, is better than with machines because you tend to be more precise. The needs of the client will tend to be more precise when somebody else is there. The artist is actually there because I doubt that a hundred percent of the time you type a prompt in AI and it will give you exactly what you want to the T whereas human interaction would do that change for you. Since I don't operate within the industry, I operate in St. Lucia where we still kind of start off and we don't have the resources, it's beneficial to us because it maximizes our time, it makes up for the lack of having a team. So for me personally, concepting, character designs, character concepts, perfect for me. It's a welcome thing for me. It's kind of being selfish because I'm kind of negating all the damage it's doing in the industry. Outside of the industry, AI works perfect for somebody like me who most of the time I have to do a lot of work by myself. So I would go into animation for now. So I mean AI didn't just come, bam, it didn't just come there. It was evolving. I would go into 3D animation. So for example, if you type in, if you admire and you type in your script for your character to do something or whatever, shift the hand or whatever, it won't come out the way that you want. You still have to go in your software and tweak it the way that you want. AI works similarly. It's a tool that has to be tweaked, right? For you as the artist to show what you want. There is always some kind of time-sensitive nature of the projects that you do. So you always eventually have to compromise something. So I feel like AI feels in that vacuum where I don't necessarily have to compromise a certain stage. The part that I never had time for, AI just came into feeling that vacuum. So for me, it doesn't really take away anything. It helps me because I'm somebody I want to be able to produce work fast because what I've found out is that when you drag on projects too long, you actually start to lose your enthusiasm and your passion for the project. So the quicker you can get a project out, not quick in the sense of trying to compromise your quality, but delivering something in a timely manner, you stay motivated whereas if you drag something for too long, it just becomes a bore to you. So I think AI really helps with that aspect for me personally because that was one of the struggles that I had. And I have a lot of incomplete projects because of that very thing. A lot of people use chat GPT, I see it as a tool. It just makes the work easier. It cuts your work down in half. What the downside of these things is that it also cuts down on human interaction because like I said, we had the problem of artists trying to do everything by themselves. The introduction of AI, kind of possible, right? Because you don't have to check somebody for copywriting when I'm talking about the writing of the scripts and so on, right? For chat GPT can generate a script for you and all you have to do, you have to tweak it. So for example, I would use chat GPT for a script, but I still have to go in my Microsoft Word to make the script relevant to our society. It's just an idea. So I would say that chat GPT would just be the skeleton and I have to put the flesh. I have to put the clothes on it, you know? So I would say that AI is a tool. I don't think we should be threatened. Yes, it's taken away from some jobs, but it will be introducing new jobs as well.