<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 10:48 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <</span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Scene to scene continuity is all over the place. </i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I noticed that too but given the subject matter I thought it was deliberate, but maybe not, maybe it was just a happy accident.<span class="gmail_default"> </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> It's an issue I've<br>
struggled with in my own AI art - though I have it easier since I'm<br>
just making still images (manga/graphic novel).<br>
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Granted, you were doing a demo for less than $1,000 and merely several<br>
days' work. A small team spending months and a few hundred thousand<br>
dollars could probably stitch something worthy of theatrical release<br>
together - but then, that's the level of time and budget that<br>
low-budget indie films already are, even without AI.<br>
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 8:39 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSYNvEgF24</a><br>
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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.<br>
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> Jason<br>
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