<div dir="auto">I watched my most of this video before I realized it was all AI:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/yMQJGXjkMaY">https://youtube.com/shorts/yMQJGXjkMaY</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That video has 30 million views.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This other AI generated one has 80 million:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/ZaIq2un6gO4">https://youtube.com/shorts/ZaIq2un6gO4</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In 2020, I predicted ( <a href="https://alwaysasking.com/when-will-ai-take-over/#AI_in_Entertainment">https://alwaysasking.com/when-will-ai-take-over/#AI_in_Entertainment</a> ) that people would be able to create feature length films would eventually be a hobby accessible to anyone, but I didn't think the day would come so soon.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 9:14 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_1727720084472708159WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> that ai video<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">>…I don’t recall who found this… {AI-generated Amelia video}<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">>…I now see why the Hollywood stars were so nervous about AI, and why movie producers were so excited…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It isn’t only Grok. I sent the AI Amelia video to a friend, who found a similar idea but the heroine was not British, rather she was Swedish.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The quality of the video was similar: you could scarcely tell it is AI, and the main character is compelling.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So now, any of us could make a movie. We don’t need actors, we don’t need studios, we don’t need money. Anyone with a story could make an AI movie.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dang that changed fast, ja? I now must call myself an S-gamma.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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