Koray Sevindi

Promptly Disagreeing

Arts EN ↓ 3 episodes

Promptly Disagreeing is a conversational podcast about art, cinema, creativity, and authorship in the age of AI. Hosted by Dr. Koray Sevindi and his AI persona, Dr. Max Output, each episode stages a sharp but playful disagreement between humanistic skepticism and technological optimism. Dr. Koray tends to defend cinema, artistic labor, aesthetics, and human experience; Dr. Max argues for AI’s creative potential with unbearable confidence and occasional dad jokes. Together, they ask what happens to storytelling, performance, authorship, and ethics when AI enters the creative process.

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Koray Sevindi

Episodes

The Brutalist Case: Did We Fix the Accent, or Give the Performance Botox? 08.07.2026 20:22

In this episode of Promptly Disagreeing, Dr. Koray Sevindi and Dr. Max Output discuss one of the most delicate questions in AI and performance: if an actor’s voice is corrected afterward using artificial intelligence, is it still their performance? Starting from the controversy around The Brutalist, the episode explores AI-assisted accent correction, voice editing, authenticity, acting labor, and...

Actor or File Format? 24.06.2026 18:36

In the second episode of Promptly Disagreeing, Dr. Koray Sevindi and his AI persona Dr. Max Output turn to one of the most urgent questions in contemporary cinema: in the age of artificial intelligence, is an actor still an actor, or have they become a licensable file format? This episode explores digital doubles, voice cloning, face rights, acting labor, consent, payment, and the ownership of per...

Screenwriter or Overenthusiastic Intern? 10.06.2026 16:16

Can AI write a screenplay, or is it just an overenthusiastic intern? In the first episode of Promptly Disagreeing, Dr. Koray Sevindi and his AI persona, Dr. Max Output, debate AI’s role in screenwriting. Is it a writer, a tool, a smart assistant, or a threat to creative labor? The conversation moves through character motivation, authorship, Hollywood’s AI anxieties, the 2023 WGA agreement, transpa...