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

[Jason Resch]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026, 7:44 PM Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au>
wrote:

> Colour me impressed! I have some ideas for dramatising some of my
> ideas from Theory of Nothing. This looks like an affordable way of
> doing that!
>


Yes, I think that is a great idea!

Should you run into any issues or have any further questions, I'm happy to
share what I learned during the process. I did reach one limit with the
Utopai tool, which is that after it got around 20 minutes long, the chat
interface with the AI stopped working. I had to start another version of
the project and then stich the clips from both versions of the project
using a desktop video editing tool myself.

Jason


> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 08:37:47PM -0400, Jason Resch via extropy-chat
> 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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