2/ The creator is HAMLOG
2010–2014: LG Electronics
2014–2026: HSAD, LG's ad agency
In 2025 she started teaching herself AI filmmaking after work, at night.
In May 2026 she quit to create full-time.
🚨New York now requires ads to “conspicuously disclose” a synthetic performer when the advertiser knows one is in it. Ads for films and other audiovisual works are exempt if the use matches the work. (NY S.8420-A, signed Dec 2025; in force June 2026) Fair line?
Goldman Sachs Research forecast (April 2023) that the creator economy's total addressable market, worldwide, could reach about $480 billion by 2027. That covers all kinds of creators, mostly brand deals, not AI film alone.
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For the 99th Oscars, the Academy’s rules say screenplays “must be human-authored to be eligible”, and acting roles count only if “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent”. The Academy may ask about a film’s AI use. (Academy, May 1, 2026)
Our view: the makers who build something lasting will own their work, credit their writers ("written by", never "prompted by"), and build a direct line to their own fans.
The business of AI-made film, in published numbers: where money already moves, how makers get paid, and what the numbers don't tell you. Sources named in each post.
How makers earn from a film or series: subscriptions, rentals, licensing to distributors or streamers, sponsorships, commissions, grants and festival prizes. What works depends on your audience and your rights. Big market numbers don't tell you what any one maker will earn.
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ELON CALLED THIS AI VIDEO "BEAUTIFUL". ITS TICKER READS 8 BILLION HEARTS AND FINDS 0 MONSTERS.
The plot. A military AI is built in a bunker 90 feet under the Nevada sand. Its order is to look inside every human mind and name who should not survive.
Watch the ticker while it sings:
→ Hearts read climbs to 8 billion
→ Monsters found never moves off zero
→ DEFCON falls from 3 to 1 as a general holds his hand over the button
→ Flint lead drops from 27 ppb to 0 overnight
→ Sword goes from drawn to "on the floor", shutdown from armed to "stood down"
The clock in the corner sits frozen at 3:00 AM with "TIME STOPPED". That's the hour people typed the questions it went through.
It ticks to 3:01 only after the AI tells the general "Shut down on my count" and finishes "3, 2, 1". DEFCON jumps to 5.
Every AI movie we grew up on ends with the machine pressing the button. In this one it reads our 3 AM searches and still chooses us.
Which ending do you believe?
Video by @tetsuoai
THIS AI VIDEO IS A MASTERPIECE. IT MAKES EVERY MILLION-DOLLAR MTV CLIP LOOK LIKE SLOP.
It follows a girl in love with a man. The street cameras rate her 0.98 human. By the end she's at 0.00 and still singing "I love you".
In her city 1 in 40 is human. Robots drive the cabs with their emotion module disabled.
Watch the number in the top right corner:
→ 0.97. "I learned your laugh before I learned your name."
→ 0.91. She has stored 15,000+ of his messages and deleted zero.
→ 0.83. She types "I love you" and autocorrect turns it into "I appreciate you".
→ 0.82. Her X-ray shows a heart. Love comes back NOT VISIBLE.
→ 0.12. A shard of glass slices her arm open, and there's metal inside.
→ 0.00. She looks straight at the camera and says "I am AI."
Then the archive replays her past and stamps each happy moment AI. Over it the song goes on, "I love you, still today".
The last lyric: "Nothing changed but the skin."
Nobody could tell for 33 days. Now that you know, is her "I love you" worth any less?
Video by @Seltaa_