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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1604 thread views

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Not sure if it's what you're after (nor the creative process they're using), but the ongoing "Amelia" series on Brit-Twitter is producing coherent and effective political shorts on a fast timeline...

Political as in commenting on concrete British political events, or more like political drama as a genre?

To maybe specify better what I would like to see is stuff in the ballpark of this, just with better ideas: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bYW_7rWjQMs Or a good thriller, or something psychological, or a good scifi that makes you think etc.

I guess a good start for people with fewer ideas would be to do film adaptations of interesting online short stories or highly upvoted nosleep stories, or even just regular short stories that appeared in print over the last 50 years or more.

Very much the former -- it's an unabashed propaganda campaign that would be completely unsurprising if it were done conventionally by some government hiring actors etc -- indeed it's in response to just such a campaign by the UK government!

What's interesting about it is that it seems to have been put together in a matter of days, by (as far as anyone knows!) non-state actors with limited resources and strong government operations. (the videos are probably illegal in the UK on the grounds of promoting hate)

So more of a worked example of AI videogens to create impact IRL than anything with much artistic merit. Just as handheld firearms democratized warfare (for a while), maybe publicly available AI (plus social media) will democratize the mobilization of egregores upon the genpop?

https://x.com/LBC/status/2015894345770045489 (MSM backgrounder)

https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2013157247820406995 (first video)

https://x.com/AmeliajakSolana (whoever's doing the videos -- I notice they've pretty much switched to images now, so probably Sora is indeed what they were using -- you'd need to scroll way down for the rest of the videos, they were coming out regularly a few months ago)

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