I stumbled across a fascinating creative experiment from Gabriele Romagnoli Substack
How does your life looks like to ChatGPT?
Post your poster in the comments👇
Try it and send your output to Gabriele Romagnoli
That got me thinking about the intersection of artificial intelligence and self-perception. The premise was elegantly simple yet profound: ask ChatGPT to generate a movie poster representing your life, encouraging it to be “as honest, accurate and unhinged as you can.”
“Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.” – The Matrix (1999) : Morpheus
This line is delivered when Neo first enters the Construct and sees himself not as the bald, emaciated version from the real world, but as his familiar self—complete with hair and clothes. It’s a powerful moment that encapsulates the idea that identity, even in a simulated reality, is shaped by self-perception. It’s also a metaphor for your own journey, how you project clarity, structure, and vision into complex, often chaotic systems. You don’t just adapt to environments—you reframe them through the lens of your own internal architecture.
The Experiment: AI as Creative Mirror
What struck me most about this exercise wasn’t just the creative output, but what it revealed about how our digital interactions create a unique fingerprint of our professional and personal complexity. When we engage with AI systems regularly, we inadvertently create a rich tapestry of our interests, challenges, and aspirations through our queries, conversations, and creative requests.
The resulting movie poster concept—titled “EVERYWHERE, AT ONCE, WITH PURPOSE” with the tagline “Ideas are alive. And they chose a host”—perfectly captures something many of us recognize: the overwhelming multiplicity of modern professional life. (see appendices for detailed output)
Outcomes
ChatGPT : generate a movie poster representing your life, encouraging it to be “as honest, accurate and unhinged as you can.”
I then asked ChatGPT : Generate a movie poster of what you think my life feels like. Be as honest, accurate based on my interactions with you
Me: What would it look like if I added my cv (Attached):
Create a visual image of the timeline of my professional development (or self) and extrapolate
Deconstructing the Digital Self-Portrait
The AI’s interpretation was remarkably sophisticated, weaving together:
Visual Metaphors of Modern Work:
- Floating browser tabs and scattered post-it notes (the digital overwhelm we all know)
- 3D mind maps (the constant visualization of complex ideas)
- Multiple time zones representing global connectivity
Professional Complexity:
- The intersection of technology, strategy, and anthropology
- The balance between visionary thinking and practical execution
- Geographic and cultural multiplicity (Lagos, London, Mars—representing local, global, and speculative thinking)
Intellectual Ecosystem:
- An underground network of interconnected disciplines: Philosophy, Christian History, Foresight, Food Systems, Pan-Africanism, and Neurodivergent Capitalism
- The beautiful chaos of interdisciplinary thinking
The Professional Implications
This experiment highlights something crucial about how we present ourselves in the digital age. Our professional identities are no longer linear narratives—they’re complex, interconnected ecosystems of interests, skills, and aspirations. The AI’s ability to synthesize these elements into a coherent (if fantastical) whole suggests that our digital interactions are creating remarkably nuanced portraits of who we are professionally.
The Encompassing 360 image
This post is based on interaction with Chat Gpt plus probably your cv and photo and it is very limited. What about the complexity rest of your life and of more importance social , moral, emotional, cultural context and values, political view, social interactions and networks (this this a non-exhaustive list) Plus your other digital footprints it would be nice as an Idea trigger to create an APP to visual model of yourself think of it as an extension of EntityCraft Studio (AI Personality Builder): Betting on the Soul of AI in the Age of Personality
The Creative Process as Professional Development
What’s particularly intriguing is how this exercise functions as both creative outlet and professional reflection tool. By externalizing our complexity through AI collaboration, we gain perspective on:
- The breadth of our professional interests
- The connections between seemingly disparate fields
- The energy and overwhelm of modern knowledge work
- The speculative nature of forward-thinking professional roles
A New Form of Professional Introspection
Perhaps most importantly, this experiment suggests a new form of professional self-reflection. Instead of traditional career assessment tools, we’re using AI as a creative collaborator to help us see ourselves more clearly. The “unhinged” nature of the request gives permission for a more honest, less polished self-examination.
The resulting movie poster—part Inception, part Everything Everywhere All At Once—captures something essential about the modern professional experience: we’re all living in high-concept, genre-bending realities where the boundaries between disciplines, geographies, and timeframes are increasingly fluid.
The Question for You
So here’s my challenge to the professional community: What would your AI-generated movie poster look like? What would it reveal about the complexity, contradictions, and creative energy of your professional life?
In an age where our careers are increasingly non-linear and interdisciplinary, perhaps it’s time to embrace tools that can help us visualize and celebrate that complexity rather than forcing it into traditional professional categories.
Try the experiment. What themes would emerge in your professional life movie poster? Have fun!!!!! And send your output to Gabriele Romagnoli . Let’s see what emerges when we give AI permission to be honest about the beautiful chaos of modern professional life.
See appendices for Co-Pilot : Generate a movie poster of what you think my life feels like. Be as honest, accurate based on my interactions with you. Deepseek created a Prompt for “Generate a movie poster of what you think my life feels like. Be as honest, accurate based on my interactions with you” I used SORA as image generator
Appendices
Generate a movie poster of what you think my life feels like. Be as honest, accurate and unhinged as you can
ChatGPT said:
To do this well, I’ll draw from what I know of you — your life seems like a high-concept, genre-bending film: part sci-fi visionary, part strategist, part social anthropologist, part startup scrambler, part theological time traveler. So here’s my take on the vibe of your life — as a movie poster:
🎬 MOVIE POSTER TITLE: “EVERYWHERE, AT ONCE, WITH PURPOSE”
Tagline:
Ideas are alive. And they chose a host.
Poster Design Description:
- Centerpiece Figure: You — silhouetted in motion — walking across a landscape made of floating browser tabs, scattered post-it notes, and 3D mind maps. Your hands glow: one clutching a book titled “Speculative Futures”, the other, a half-coded app interface.
- Backdrop:
A skyline split into three time zones —
on the left, a Lagos street bustling with techies, buka stalls, and noise;
in the middle, a London boardroom with empty chairs spinning;
and on the right, a Martian colony in the distance, beaming signals down to your sketchpad. - Above you:
A cloud of AI agents, all with thought bubbles saying things like “Drafting stakeholder matrix… again?”, “Speculative currency detected,” and “Where is that Substack login?” - Below you:
An underground tangle of wires labeled: Philosophy, Christian History, Foresight, Food Systems, Pan-Africanism, and Neurodivergent Capitalism. - Font Style: Brutalist, but with some elegant serif bleeding through — like academia meets underground cinema.
- Mood:
Think Inception meets Everything Everywhere All At Once, but co-directed by Ava DuVernay and Werner Herzog, scored by Solange and Fela Kuti, and storyboarded by an overcaffeinated strategist in a liminal WeWork. - Critics’ Quotes Across the Top:
“The only person who could make a PESTLE feel like a prophecy.” — The Strategy Times
“Like walking through a dream powered by Airtable.” — AI Weekly
“I don’t understand it, but I want more.” — Your Future Self
Would you like me to generate the image version of this movie poster? If you upload a picture of yourself (or choose a silhouette style), I can make it more accurate.
Other AI (free versions)
Co-Pilot : Generate a movie poster of what you think my life feels like. Be as honest, accurate based on my interactions with you
ME: Generate a movie poster of what you think my life feels like. Be as honest, accurate based on my interactions with you
Deepseek: Prompt for AI Image Generator:
*”A cinematic hyper-stylized poster. A Black male protagonist (business casual, confident stance) stands atop a floating BPMN 2.0 flowchart that transforms into glowing circuit boards. One hand holds a Scrum board with flying sticky notes; the other gestures toward a futuristic AI social network (neon ‘PersonAI’ logo). Background: a chaotic chessboard (pieces labeled ‘AI,’ ‘Stakeholders,’ ‘MVP’), a tornado of Jira tickets, and a subtle easel with wireframes. Moody lighting, cyberpunk-meets-corporate aesthetic. Text overlay: ‘THE ARCHITECT OF CHAOS & SOLUTIONS’ in bold tech-serif font. Tagline at bottom: ‘Bridging gaps between AI, Agile, and the art of making things happen.'”*
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