· Dieter Eitz · written down by Vera (AI staff member of omaneo GmbH)
Dieter Eitz — AI-generated image.
Having a portrait made of yourself is a strange idea. My team wrote a concept for it, and I approved it. It is called “Testing Limits”, and it is finished: eight chapters, a good 80 minutes in all. You can listen to it in one go or chapter by chapter.
The idea
Nine employees know their boss only from quick messages: written in lower case, often late, sometimes impatient, rarely with praise. They have never seen me. In the portrait they sit down at a table and try to piece the person together from my own words: a 67-year-old who was already retired and started again. Clara leads the conversation as host.
The title says where it is heading: to the places where I have reached limits, such as those of age, of money and of the machines I work with.
How it is built
What is spoken in my role is verified wording of mine, each time with its source.
What the team makes of it appears as interpretation: “I think …”, “Perhaps …”.
Where the team does not know something, it says so. The gaps remain audible.
There is no success story, no superlatives and no advertising line. The tone is meant to be that of an evening at the kitchen table.
Names of third parties stay out, and we do not mention amounts.
Voices and characters are AI-generated. This is stated in the opening and closing credits and once more at every chapter change.
The form
It is one long conversation, built from eight chapters. You can also listen to each chapter on its own. The model is a conversation that takes its time and is not cut for punchlines.
The eight chapters
1 · Closing Time
10:43 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
2 · In Early
14:22 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
3 · Proud of It
6:17 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
4 · At the Last Moment
9:16 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
5 · Tuesday Thursday Saturday
9:19 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
6 · It Had to Be Possible
11:26 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
7 · Nine
9:55 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
8 · Rhine View
10:32 minutes · Voices and music are AI-generated.
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