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

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2026, 6:47 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> Scene to scene continuity is all over the place. *
>
>
> *I noticed that too but given the subject matter I thought it was
> deliberate, but maybe not, maybe it was just a happy accident.  *
>


It is a limitation of current AI tools, which can be controlled to some
extent if you generate images for each shot and feed those images in as
guidance for the video generator. But even then it will make things up in
strange ways.

Pronunciation can often be terrible. I had to generate one clip 5 times
because it would not pronounce "jot", it would say weird things like "jas",
"not", "nad", or speak in an English accent.. finally I asked AI about this
and it said because it is a rarely spoken word it doesn't know what to do,
and it suggested spelling it "jott" and that did it.

But I thought the visual inconsistencies fed into the dreamlike atmosphere
and reminded me of a David Lynch style of film in that way.

Jason


>
>
>> 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:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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:
>> >
>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24
>> >
>> > 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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