AI Native Media (Corpus + Kernel)

a medium cannot succeed by imitating existing mediums; it must invent its own language, evolve its own genres, discover the kind of stories that only it can tell.

Unlike fan fiction, there's no canon to rebel against, just infinite, jazz-like variations on a theme. Each co-created artefact is unique as a snowflake, yet they all share that same underlying structure, the artistic kernel that makes them recognisably part of the same creative constellation.

The Italian Brainrot Animals are beloved because they’re devoid of meaning, yet still find emotional resonance. They’re strange, silly, and, because they offer no ideology, commentary, or moral alignment, they’re universally accessible.

Just as manipulating actuality is the soul of cinema, playing with subjectivity is the soul of AI as an artistic medium.

The early Lumière films, academically termed “actualities,” weren’t so much a precursor to documentaries as a manifestation of the raw, foundational nature of cinema: Movement in time — presence, life, actuality — captured and then played back.

AI is a machine that captures and projects subjectivities, a “noematograph.”

Practically, such a kernel could be composed of:

• Model specification : Foundation model/version being used


• Latent vectors/coordinates : The specific points in latent space being claimed


• Sampling parameters : Temperature, guidance scale, etc., that affect generation


• System prompt : Any prompts or other conditioning context