Author: sking
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What to do When Your AI Film Can’t Generate Consistent Characters
M. Kalinski et al., “Addressing Character Consistency Challenges in AI Filmmaking,” 2025 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2025, pp. 642-648, doi: 10.1109/ICNC64010.2025.10993630. https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.ezproxy.emich.edu/document/10993630 When watching longer form AI generated video content, viewers may notice that the characters don’t look the same between scenes. So how can we fix that? This article…
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Former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Points Out He Warned Everyone About AI
Yang, Andrew. @officialandrewyang. “I wish the data was different. #ai”. TikTok, https://www.tiktok.com/@officialandrewyang/video/7567157197084429599?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7569312212142999071 Former 2020 presidential candidate and attorney Andrew Yang turned to TikTok in late October to remind everyone that media criticized him for warning that AI might negatively effect American workers. The video features Yang walking in New York City while headlines from his…
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YouTuber Eddy Burback’s AI Psychosis Experiment
“ChatGPT made me delusional”. YouTube, uploaded by Eddy Burback, 30 October 2025. https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?si=cIBOALYyj3w2_zeb Eddy Burback, a YouTuber with over two million subscribers known for his comedy and commentary content, went down the rabbit hole of ChatGPT’s endless positive feedback in an attempt to understand how people fall victim to AI psychosis. Burback got ChatGPT to…
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xAI’s “Grokipedia” Facing Backlash
Hart and Welle. “‘Grokipedia’ is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk”. The Verge, 29 October 2025. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison Elon Musk and xAI have debuted a new online encyclopedia meant to be less biased or “woke” than Wikipedia. In addition to containing pages cloned straight from Wikipedia, Grokipedia hosts far-right conspiracy theories, misinformation, with overtly racist and…
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Hooroo Jackson, self-proclaimed AI filmmaker, explains why AI film is the future
Jackson, Hooroo. “The Heaviest Machine”. Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory, 13 July 2025. https://hooroojackson.com/the-heaviest-machine/ For anyone wondering what the film buffs are getting up to with AI, look no further than Hooroo Jackson. I must acknowledge my personal disagreement with Jackson about almost every opinion he holds about film and apologize if that…
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Merriam-Website Pokes Fun at AI in social media posts
Merriam-Webster. “LLM”. YouTube, 24 September 2025. https://youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?si=-JL8gTWhkWLbEsGU Merriam-Webster dictionary posted a video making fun of AI large language models across multiple social media platforms. In the video, Merriam-Webster describes and hypes up a brand new LLM. Stating that it “uses no power” and “never hallucinates”, the video eventually reveals that the LLM it advertises is,…
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IMAX Partners With Runway AI
Zeitchik, Steven. “Runway AI, Imax Sign A Film Festival Deal”. The Hollywood Reporter, July 28th, 2025. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/imax-runway-ai-film-festival-1236330969/ IMAX partnered with Runway AI to show the shorts from Runway AI’s 2025 AI Film Festival in August of 2025. This took place at 10 IMAX screen locations across the country, in major cities like New York City…
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YouTube is Upscaling Shorts With AI, Without Creator Permission
Reisner, Alex. “YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’.” The Atlantic, August 22, 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/youtube-shorts-ai-upscaling/683946/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Recently, viewers and creators alike on YouTube have noticed something is off when watching YouTube shorts. They soon found there was a reason for this. Without asking permission, or even notifying posters, YouTube used AI to try and improve the video quality on…