Technical Difficulties: A Pause, Not an Ending
Over the last few months, I’ve poured my heart into exploring what AI could help me create — not as a shortcut, not as a way to deceive, but as a bridge into worlds I’ve dreamed about since childhood. Virella.exe, the Dreams of Utopian Pleasures concept, Dreamseed Works, the experimental extensions for my zines and books… these were all deeply creative projects I approached with care, transparency, and respect for legal and ethical boundaries. I spent a lot of time researching the rules, the guidelines, the do’s and don’ts. I went out of my way to keep everything above-board: — using my own writing, my own concepts, my own characters — keeping my AI usage transparent — avoiding anything that even looked like impersonation or copyright violations — making sure my tools and workflows stayed within allowed, ethical frameworks I even used my own image to generate the VirellaExe persona character. Ironically, it’s exactly these attempts to do things the right way that have led me into repea...
