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

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 22/10/2026 05:10, Jason Resch wrote:
> 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.


Yes, very good daramtization, pretty good AI animation etc. (although I thought the 'Otter on a plane with wifi' one was better) But  it soon became apparent that this is just another attempt to push your (imo) stupid 'universal identity' or whatever it's called idea.

So the propaganda aspect kind of undermines appreciating how good the video is (at least for me. Maybe I've just got an over-developed 'sales pitch' filter), and caused me to stop watching part of the way through. Although it is kind of creepy, in some vague way. I think it might be just on the edge of the uncanny valley. It might be because of too much sharp-focus detail. Not sure, but it has the same quality that makes it easy to spot AI generated still images. It's certainly not indistinguishable from live-action film, anyway. I think Hollywood is safe for a little while longer.

Try animating something that allows people to enjoy it, instead of trying to persuade them of something.
-- 
Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein