Liberal Clue, Parachuting Lawyers, and Tylenol Autism Strength

Making videos for the Bee

I’ve been doing some more AI videos for The Babylon Bee. It’s given me an opportunity to play some more with the tech and given The Babylon Bee some more videos in between their larger productions with their physical actors.

This one is based on a Bee article, and it’s nice how I was able to just hand it the image from the article, and it was then able to put the game right into the video.

Here’s another one based on a Bee article, and I think this turned out pretty well for a narrative-driven one with a lot of dialogue. I actually like some of the AI performances — to get decent performances, the AI needs to understand the scene, which isn’t always easy to communicate to it.

I actually had a better version of this one where I fixed an AI moment with the parachute and some of the sound, but they accidentally published an earlier draft.

And this one was published this week, the day after the Trump administration announcement. It only took a couple of hours to make, so AI is pretty good for quick reacts.

I think it’s a fun medium to play precisely because you can do about anything and turn it around so quickly. It takes compromises, though, since you can’t always get precisely what you want. I feel like it’s a bit like working with animal actors, where you just take the best performance you can elicit and adjust.