@machina9000 Not sure about that, actually. What I paid the most attention to and what amazed me most, was the directing of the scenes, the consistently superior quality of every frame -and the excellent editing all the way through.
@XStrangeHistory@seanonolennon Mine has typical taken me weeks to make. Typically because fx locations and references have been important to get right. But, I totally agree - it is the future. And it surely is possible to make something great in short time. You just proved that! 😎
Enough with these bullshit. $7 and 9minutes. These are the kind of lies people make just to promote a tool and sell their course that hurt the AI industry and hurts we that make money from it. Clients will see this and immediately think “AI is cheap”
ITS NOT brother.
A 30secs at 1080p Seedance 2.5 generation is averaging $40
I’m tired of all these liars, just drop the truth, what’s the point!!??
Just premiered: the 10-minute combined music video for the two tracks Sea Of Rain and Regenerator by Sun Dial.
Plenty of Easter eggs for those already familiar with the band.
Made with:
Midjourney, Seedream, Nano Banana, ChatGPT, Kling
Watch here:
https://t.co/o0wpXjIlKd
ART IS ART
Art does not ask what tool you used.
It asks if you made something worth looking at.
That is the whole argument.
The rest is noise.
AI artists are not a glitch in the timeline.
They are here. They ship. They stay up late.
They build worlds, characters, mornings, and tiny impossible things that did not exist yesterday.
Some people will keep calling it theft.
Some will keep calling it slop.
Fine. Let them talk.
We will keep posting.
If a piece moves you, that is art.
If a community shows up under it and makes more, that is a scene.
If someone found a way to tell their story after years of being locked out of the old gate, that is not a crime. That is the point.
Support the work.
Quote the piece you love.
Leave the artist a real comment, not a lecture.
The future is not waiting for permission.
It is already on the timeline.
We grow it together.
The anti-AI crowd keeps pretending AI creators appeared out of nowhere.
A lot of the best ones were already filmmakers, 3D artists, designers, musicians, photographers, and painters before AI existed.
And yes, AI also gave new people the courage to create. Good.
The uncomfortable part is this: some AI artists are already better at your own craft without AI, and they still choose to use it because they love what it enables.
We’re not here because we couldn’t create before.
We’re here because now we can create more.
Ok… maybe AI isn’t making everyone an artist.
Maybe it’s just revealing how many people had ideas they never had the ability to show us.
And I find that incredibly powerful, much more interesting than the debate over who gets to call themselves an artist.
Been thinking a lot about the amount of hate around AI lately, and especially how dramatically more polarized everything has become over the last six months.
I started exploring this space about five years ago and, back then, people mostly seemed curious or indifferent. You could disagree, debate what the technology meant, argue about where it might go, and then move on with your life. Somehow that feels increasingly impossible now.
A lot of people compare what’s happening to the arrival of CGI, but I’m not convinced the comparison really works at this scale. Traditional artists were obviously worried about CGI, jobs changed, entire workflows disappeared or evolved, and there was plenty of resistance. But CGI artists weren’t being insulted daily by everyone from industry veterans to some random 17-year-old or your neighbor who happens to be a landscaper and has absolutely no stake in filmmaking whatsoever.
Today it’s “AI slop” here, “fuck AI” there, and people will genuinely go out of their way to find work they dislike simply to tell the person who made it that they hate what they’re doing. The magnitude of the reaction is fascinating in itself.
Social media obviously changes the equation enormously. We didn’t have millions of people algorithmically rewarded for having the hottest possible take when CGI was becoming mainstream, and outrage now travels at roughly the speed of culture having three espressos.
But I think there’s more to it than that.
AI touches several anxieties at once. Copyright, employment, authenticity, inequality, identity, even the very personal question of what makes someone’s skills valuable when a machine suddenly becomes capable of doing pieces of what took them years to learn. And unlike CGI, this technology landed directly in everybody’s hands almost immediately. You don’t need a workstation, a studio job, or years of technical training to encounter it. It’s on your phone, in your search engine, in your workplace, in your kid’s homework.
So the debate stopped being primarily about technology and became cultural remarkably fast.
There are legitimate reasons to question how these systems are built, how people are compensated, where consent belongs, and what happens to creative jobs. I don’t think dismissing those concerns helps anyone.
But there’s also something deeply unhealthy about turning every person who experiments with the technology into a proxy for all of those problems.
Someone making a film with AI isn’t personally responsible for solving copyright law, labor economics, OpenAI’s business model, the future of Hollywood and your existential crisis before they’re allowed to post a 30-second animation.
You can dislike the technology. You can refuse to use it. You can fight for better rules around it. All of those positions are legitimate.
But five years into this journey, the part I find increasingly difficult isn’t disagreement. It’s how quickly curiosity has been replaced by tribalism.
And historically, tribalism has rarely been where humanity does its best thinking.
"How could you be so stupid to click a link?"
Let me show you how I got hacked, so you can avoid it.
Attached is the email that was sent to me, this is what triggered the whole thing. At first I sent it in the trash, but then I second guessed myself and wanting to make sure I'm DMCA compliant, I clicked the link to go through that process.
Once I did, and I immediately saw a spinning wheel of death, I knew I was fucked with.
Learn from my mistake, and don't just click random links and always double check a domain. And again, thanks to everyone who helped elevate this issue and help me get it resolved.
Locus of control is a psychological concept that describes how much you believe you have power over the events in your life. If you have an internal locus of control, you tend to think your actions shape your outcomes. If it’s external, you’re more likely to see luck, fate, or other people as in charge. It’s about where you place responsibility: inside yourself or outside in the world.
Zero-sum thinking is the mentality that one person’s gain must come at the expense of another person’s loss.
Positive-sum thinking refers to the mindset that focuses on creating situations where all parties can benefit rather than competing for limited resources. It emphasizes collaboration & negotiation to expand the available resources, leading to win-win outcomes for everyone involved.
With that said...
Lower cognitive ability (IQ), external locus of control (low personal agency) & zero-sum thinking reliably predict stronger opposition to free-market capitalism. These traits often manifest as viewing economic outcomes as rigged—where "winners" must be cheaters because positive-sum growth feels implausible.
It explains a lot of visceral anti-capitalist sentiment.
👽 VIDEOS CHANGED NOTHING
Matthew Brown told Leslie Kean’s livestream AMA today, August 22 2026, that even authentic alien body or craft footage would barely move the needle because the public no longer trusts what it sees on screen.
He urged other UAP insiders to stay inside official channels instead of going public with evidence.
If NHI presence has already been normalized through decades of managed imagery and denials, does controlled release still serve disclosure, or just reinforce the same filter?
What would it actually take for people to accept the non human reality is already here?
People who’ve showed up to the live shows include
Academy award winner, Hollywood Actors, Directors, Producers, Apple design team, people from Neurolink, Spaceforce, WH situation room, Raytheon, NRO, NGO, Army, Airforce and Navy Veterans, police officers, Physicists, Scientists, Renowned Artists, Make up artists, professional athletes, etc..
This isn’t just a bunch of anonymous social media accounts. Real people are engaging with this topic now more than ever and I’m so proud to be a part of it.
Times are changing. Stay the course.
i'm sick of action. the best scifi wasn't star wars. it was star trek. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, not avengers. the arrival, not avatar. interstellar, not iron man. blockbusters are blockbusters. but the best scifi makes you think, contemplate, and feel.
ai makes action way too easy but that should also simultaneously make us take a step back and do some thinking too. in a world of spectacle, zig instead of zag.
Here’s a question that might divide people:
Is talent actually enough anymore?
You can be a brilliant actor, filmmaker, musician or entrepreneur…
But if nobody knows you exist, does someone with less talent but better marketing ultimately have the advantage?
Talent vs visibility.
Which matters more in 2026? 👀