[ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

[Adrian Tymes]

Scene to scene continuity is all over the place.  It's an issue I've
struggled with in my own AI art - though I have it easier since I'm
just making still images (manga/graphic novel).

Granted, you were doing a demo for less than $1,000 and merely several
days' work.  A small team spending months and a few hundred thousand
dollars could probably stitch something worthy of theatrical release
together - but then, that's the level of time and budget that
low-budget indie films already are, even without AI.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 8:39 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> I gave Claude Opus a book: Finding Myself and asked that it write a daramtization of it, in a screen play of about 15 minutes long, focused on one character working through each of the thought experiments in a vivid, emotionally compelling way.
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> I then took that screen play to another AI service (Utopai) that takes scripts, and converts them into shots that can be generated in 4-15 second chunks. It is a bit rough around the edges, and it was both expensive, and frustrating when the generations did not align with expectations, but after several days I was able to stich together enough workable scenes into a fairly nice piece.
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> The author of Finding Myself is incredibly happy with the accurate portrayal of the thought experiments, and thinks this will bring much more attention to his ideas. The following is the result:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24
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> All in, the cost was less than $1,000 to produce this 22 minute video. I think Hollywood's days are numbered.
>
> Jason
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