HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Oct 1, 2026 · 45 min · 14 segments
For the first guest interview on HumanPrint, I’m talking with Cookie Young of The Neon Vegas — marketing heretic, synthetic era image provocateur, and boutique AI filmmaker — about what happens when…
Christine WhitmarshHostThere's a way that I discovered how to kind of describe this that takes, you know, how people are kind of scared of all this stuff and they have their fears and they have their reasons.
What it looks like to me is like paper dolls where they're, they're just dolls.
And you're making them move the way you want and say the stuff the way you want it to be said.
And it just, to me, that kind of brings more of the fun and whimsy into it instead of, oh my gosh, it's AI and it's coming to take our jobs and hurt people.
And it's something that I talk about a lot on the platform that The more fun you have with it, like the more the fear dissipates.
And I want to be at the forefront of fun creation with AI video gen and short films in general.
I love the idea of fear being replaced by fun, especially with the product I'm working on.
My AI startup, which I don't see it as replacing writers, it's a way for writers to expand.
What you're talking about, I mean, I don't know if this is like the right parallel, but like animation, I mean, did that just remove, like when animation came along, did that like destroy, you know, live action filmmaking? No, it didn't.
And that just kind of popped into my head while you were talking about paper dolls.
And just like you said, the animation, it doesn't stop actual actors, it doesn't stop anything.
It's Like the expansion then, you know, I don't want to use the word abundance because there's, you know, baggage along with that word.
And anyone who is going to see this as something to fear, that fear is going to expand.
There's a way that I discovered how to kind of describe this that takes, you know, how people are kind of scared of all this stuff and they have their fears and they have their reasons.
What it looks like to me is like paper dolls where they're, they're just dolls.
And you're making them move the way you want and say the stuff the way you want it to be said.
And it just, to me, that kind of brings more of the fun and whimsy into it instead of, oh my gosh, it's AI and it's coming to take our jobs and hurt people.
And it's something that I talk about a lot on the platform that The more fun you have with it, like the more the fear dissipates.
And I want to be at the forefront of fun creation with AI video gen and short films in general.
I love the idea of fear being replaced by fun, especially with the product I'm working on.
My AI startup, which I don't see it as replacing writers, it's a way for writers to expand.
What you're talking about, I mean, I don't know if this is like the right parallel, but like animation, I mean, did that just remove, like when animation came along, did that like destroy, you know, live action filmmaking? No, it didn't.
And that just kind of popped into my head while you were talking about paper dolls.
And just like you said, the animation, it doesn't stop actual actors, it doesn't stop anything.
It's Like the expansion then, you know, I don't want to use the word abundance because there's, you know, baggage along with that word.
And anyone who is going to see this as something to fear, that fear is going to expand.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
