After a weekend trying to talk sense into these folks who hate on people like me, that create art and tech with AI, I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could relay my message with mixture of tech, art and creativity. Well, this is the result. So...Are you prepared?

Made with @claudeai Opus (and a little Fable). @higgsfield API Seedance2.5

Historical Tech Clip credits available upon request due to privacy.

SOURCES (every historical item in the film, in the order it appears) 1906. John Philip Sousa, "The Menace of Mechanical Music," Appleton's Magazine, Sept 1906. Full scan: archive.org/details/sim_appl… Sousa on film, 1917 (The Making of a Man-O-Warsman, National Archives): catalog.archives.gov/id/9304… Sousa portrait, c.1895 (Library of Congress): loc.gov/item/2005676156/ Edison record, from The Voice of the Violin, 1915 (Library of Congress): loc.gov/item/00694140/ 1927. "Vitaphone Is Triumph at Coast House," The Spokane Woman, March 24, 1927 (Chronicling America, Library of Congress): loc.gov/resource/sn88087129/… Vitaphone orchestra film, 1926 (Overture: Tannhauser, New York Philharmonic): archive.org/details/overture… Movie palace orchestra, c.1918-1928 (Library of Congress): loc.gov/item/2016826665/ The 22,000 jobs figure: American Federation of Musicians Local 802, "Musicians vs. the Talkies": local802afm.org/allegro/arti… 1930. Musicians' union ads. "Is Art to Have a Tyrant?" (the robot line), Milwaukee Leader, Sept 2, 1930: loc.gov/resource/sn83045293/… Same ad, New Britain Herald, Sept 3, 1930: loc.gov/resource/sn82014519/… "Making Musical Mince Meat!", Milwaukee Leader, Nov 3, 1930: loc.gov/resource/sn83045293/… 1982. UK Musicians' Union synth motion (The Musicians' Union: A History, 1893-2013): muhistory.com/contact-us/197… Fairlight CMI photo: Joho345, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. TR-808 photo: Bryan Pocius, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F… Everything above is public domain or Library of Congress "no known restrictions," (CC BY 2.0, credit above).

This is Jenny, one of the band members in my AI band. All of my content is 100% original, including all models, music, voices, and likenesses. For more info on how I build my models, go here. nitter.cf/BroadsideCode/status/2…

Credits and References available upon request. abbr. credits Sources: Sousa, "The Menace of Mechanical Music," Appleton's 1906 (archive.org). Sousa on film 1917 (National Archives). Spokane Woman, 3/24/1927 and the 1930 musicians' union ads (Chronicling America, Library of Congress). 22,000 jobs: AFM Local 802, "Musicians vs. the Talkies." 1982 synth motion: muhistory.com. TR-808 photo: Bryan Pocius, CC BY 2.0.

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Prompt: Make a 14-second motion graphics showreel, 1920x1080, dark UI style. One continuous piece with no hard cuts: every scene hands off to the next with an animated move (camera push, slide, blur, or morph). Keep it fast, most scenes last about a second. The background is a very dark near-black, with soft blue and violet glows that drift behind each scene. Clean modern sans-serif type in white or light grey. Everything moves with snappy ease-out timing and real motion blur on the fast moves. Add sound design: soft keyboard typing, little UI clicks, a whoosh on every transition, a low hit here and there, and a quiet steady beat underneath, with the scene changes landing on the beat. Scenes, in order: 1. An AI chat input box, rounded and dark grey, with a row of small icons along the bottom (plus, globe, a couple of tool icons, a model chip that says 5.5) and a mic and a round send button on the right. It starts blurred and zooms into focus. Some old text in the box gets highlighted and deleted, then "Can you please answer my question" types out with a blinking cursor. 2. A small model picker drops down under the model chip with three options: Sonnet 5, Opus 5.5, Opus 7. The highlight steps down to Opus 7, which has a tiny "max" badge, and it glows blue. Then the whole box blurs and sinks away. 3. A segmented pill control rises up with three options: Create, Adjustment, Re-Create. The camera slams in close on it. The selection slides from Adjustment over to Re-Create while an indigo gradient fills the bar. The camera tracks right and Re-Create blurs off the frame. 4. Two glowing teal light streaks swoop in on a curve, carrying the word "Scratch" along with them. The word settles flat in the center, a blue glow sweeps past behind it, then the word warps and shrinks away. 5. A white ball drops onto a short white line, squashes as it lands, and splashes into a quick teal scribble while teal arcs whip past. 6. The word "Shading" builds itself from letters that scatter and wobble, then snap into place. 7. "Movement" dissolves in over "Shading" inside an indigo glow, drifts up, then blurs out vertically. 8. A thumbs-up icon rises into a circle. A burst of small blue thumbs-up icons pops out around it and fades. Then "SUBSCRIBE" fades in beside the circled thumb, and the pair slides left and holds for a couple of seconds, the longest hold in the piece. 9. Pure black. A quick red light flick, then the word "Salvo" tumbles in one letter at a time, each letter rotating and settling into place, in a coral pink that eases toward white. Hold to the end.

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Message to all of my AI haters: is this slop? I mocapped my hands playing this song that I wrote. I then built an AI skeleton for motion, timed out the lyrics and the music, and had one of my (yes AI) band members play it in studio on a guitar with the actual correct notes, capo, and fretting. Is this art? Or is this slop? If you want to see all the technical details, let me know. I can give them to you. It's actually quite interesting.