The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis - 10 AI Video Trends Taking Over the Internet

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

Google’s Veo 3 launch changed AI video overnight. Suddenly, TikTok and Instagram are full of AI videos with synced sound, sharp effects, and wild new genres. You’ll see viral ASMR clips, Bigfoot vlogs, historical figure parodies, Harry Potter spin-offs, and Star Wars stormtrooper diaries.Get Ad Free AI Daily Brief: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/AIDailyBrief⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brought to you by:Gemini - Supercharge your creativity and productivity - ⁠⁠http://gemini.google/⁠KPMG – Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://kpmg.com/ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about how KPMG can help you drive value with our AI solutions.Blitzy.com - Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://blitzy.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to build enterprise software in days, not months AGNTCY - The AGNTCY is an open-source collective dedicated to building the Internet of Agents, enabling AI agents to communicate and collaborate seamlessly across frameworks. Join a community of engineers focused on high-quality multi-agent software and support the initiative at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠agntcy.org ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Vanta - Simplify compliance - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://vanta.com/nlw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Plumb - The automation platform for AI experts and consultants ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://useplumb.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://besuper.ai/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠to request your company's agent readiness score.The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Join our Discord: https://bit.ly/aibreakdownInterested in sponsoring the show? [e-mail]

Today on the AI Daily Brief, 10 new AI video trends absolutely taking over the internet. Before that in the headlines, OpenAI Sam Altman seems to confirm these rumors of $100 million offers from META. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Hello, friends, quick announcements as always. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors Blitzy, Plum, Vanta, and Superintelligent. And to get an ad-free version of the show, go to Patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief. And with that, let's dive in. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines edition,

all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. A big theme of conversation recently has been the apparently crazy offers flying around Silicon Valley for top AI talent, with the latest salvo in that battle being that Sam Altman has confirmed, while appearing on an episode of his brother Jack Altman's podcast, that Metas Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to poach open AI researchers with nine figure offers. Now, when news of Meta's, as scale investment first broke, it was accompanied by news that Zuckerberg was

personally recruiting a 50-person superintelligence team drawn from those leading AI labs. Anonymous sourcing discussed rumors of compensation packages stretching into the hundreds of millions of dollars range. People were chattering about this on Twitter, but it wasn't exactly clear whether this was hyperbole or literal. Sam Alman seems to suggest that it is literal. He said, meta has started making these giant offers to a lot of people on our team. you know, like $100 million signing bonuses.

More than that in compensation per year. It's crazy. I'm really happy that, at least so far, none of our best people have decided to take him up on that. Alman speculated that his staff are making the calculation that OpenAI has a much better shot of, quote, actually delivering on superintelligence, and also may eventually be the more valuable company. Now, many people were just mouth open aghast at this. Elvis Sarajevoa commented, insane.

They weren't kidding when they said pro-athlete level type of compensation. Alman, meanwhile, argued that Zuck's deep pockets won't necessarily make for good culture, saying, I think the strategy of a ton of upfront compensation and that being the reason you tell someone to join, really the degree to which they're focusing on that and not the work and not the mission. I don't think that's going to set up a great culture. Now, at this stage, we haven't heard any new reports of OpenAI researchers jumping ship to join Zuck's AI dream team yet, but TechCrunch does report that leading reasoning in agentics expert Noam Brown was approached and turned down an offer.

Brown is already on record discussing his choice to leave meta in 2023 to join Open A.I. stating that he met with every major player in the industry. He said that he chose OpenAI because they were willing to put in resources behind the work he was excited about doing, stating, it was actually financially not the best option that I had. And just as a way of understanding how crazy things have gotten in a very short period of time, when this was reported just a month ago, sources were discussing $20 million compensation packages for top tier researchers as the extreme end of the cash on offer. Certainly what it makes everyone wonder is that anytime we get a report of someone leaving their big lab, i.e., for example, the head of engineering for Google's Gemini

chatbot, was reported to be leaving yesterday. You kind of have to wonder if these are folks who have been returning Zuckerberg's calls. Altman continued to prodded Zuckerberg's effort to turn AI around later in the podcast, stoking what may be the next big rivalry in the industry. Alman said, I've heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor. I respect being aggressive and continuing to try new things. There's many things I respect about Meta as a company, but I don't think they're a company that's great at innovation. I think we understand a lot of things that they don't. Ultimately, many see this as a pretty savvy move from Altman. Basically, whether or not this is true, by suggesting that they were officially seeing

$100 million types of offers. It makes everyone who takes them look like a mercenary, and it makes everyone at Meta who doesn't have them wonder where their bag is. And in the case, if these numbers really are at the levels they're at, you would expect some serious movement in the direction of meta soon, but so far, it's mostly just reporting around the numbers. Next up, staying on OpenAI for just a minute, the company has secured their first Pentagon contract valued at $200 million. The company announced the project as their first under a new entity called OpenAI for government. Previous initiatives, including partnerships with the U.S. National Labs, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury, will all be brought under this umbrella.

OpenAI says the Pentagon contract involves helping, quote, identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data to supporting proactive cyber defense. Now, this represents the culmination of an evolution for OpenAI. In January of last year, they removed their total ban on military and warfare usage, and after the White House released the National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence in October, they clarified that their red line was using our technology to harm people, destroy property, or develop weapons. Shortly after that, they announced a partnership with Anderil to work on anti-dron targeting systems, and while

OpenAI's announcement emphasized unobjectionable use cases, the Pentagon was a little more forthright. They said that OpenAI had been brought aboard to, quote, develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to adjust critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains. Now, the other little wrinkle of this deal is that it could drive a further wedge between OpenAI and their increasingly estranged partner, Microsoft. Microsoft has thousands of contracts with the federal government, with their secure cloud offering being a highly lucrative linchpin. It was only in April that Microsoft announced that their hosted OpenAI service. had been approved for all classification levels, and so the question is, with this direct partnership

now signed, is the Pentagon actually just cutting Microsoft out of the deal? Next up, the $200 premium price point continues to gain momentum for popular AI services. The latest to jump on this level is that Cursor has launched a $200 a month tier that they're calling their Ultra Plan. The subscription comes with 20 times more usage than the Pro Tier. With Cursor writing, this change was highly requested by power users seeking more predictability than usage-based pricing would offer. The $20 a month plan is also being upgraded

with users getting unlimited access subject to rate limits rather than capping out at 500 requests. You might remember that back last December, when OpenAI first announced they would be charging $200 a month for their top-tier subscription, many thought that they were nuts. But that service has been very popular for power users who are willing to pay for unlimited usage

and priority access to new models and features. Anthropic followed suit and offered their own $200 tier, once again allowing people to pay to avoid hitting usage limits. Cursor is now in a similar position, with dedicated users that just want to pay a monthly fee and stop thinking about how much they're using the tool. Still, this is the first time we've seen an AI tool rather than a model company experiment with this level of premium pricing. Separately, Bloomberg reports that Cursor has been fielding offers to raise funds at a valuation

between $18 billion and $20 billion. Sources say that Cursor didn't initiate the conversations and may not decide to raise funds at the moment. Remember, this company only closed their series C two weeks ago, raising $900 billion at a $9.9.9 billion They recently hit 500 million in ARR, a 60% increase in two months, good enough to be considered at this point the fastest growing startup in the history of Silicon Valley. Cursor for their part denied the reports saying that they are focused on building the technology product and team.

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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. Today we are talking about something which I have become convinced is an actual inflection point moment in the story of how AI is interacting with the real world. I'm talking about Google's release of V-O-3. In a few weeks since V-O-3 was announced, it has absolutely, taken over the internet. You cannot go on Instagram Reels or TikTok without seeing a video created not just by AI, but by V-O-3 specifically. The unlock, it turns out, was the ability to generate aligned audio alongside the video. When you can prompt and create scenes where people, and as we'll

see, characters are talking with the video matching that, natively all in a single prompt, it is, as it turns out, completely different than a workflow where you have to, on the one hand, generate the video and then separately match it up with sound. And as this new category of AI video is on the rise, the ability to integrate it and do stuff with it in the major channels is going up as well. It was just announced earlier this week that YouTube is going to bring the V-O-3 video model directly into YouTube shorts. That came from a conversation at the Can Lion advertising event from YouTube CEO Neil Mohan. In that same speech, he also noted that shorts are averaging more than 200 billion video

views per day, so there was a lot of room for this content to find an audience. Of course, in the advertising world, we have both meta and TikTok, pushing a slate of AI tools that run all the way from the creative content generation on the one hand to the actual distribution of the ads on the other. Now, in addition to V-O-3, we also got Mid-Journey dropping its video model this week. It's a very, very long-anticipated video model, I would say. Mid Journey has always had a certain aesthetic and a type of quality and artistry that other generative image tools haven't had, and so people were really excited to see if that would come to video,

and so far it has. Fihong, who does brand experience at Perplexity, says Mid Journey introduces video generation, and it's surpassing all my expectations. Yagg writes, most people don't realize how big of a deal Mid Journey's video model truly is. It's not just another AI release. It's the awakening of an entire archive of highly refined art style. that have never been animated or brought to life before. No other model has that kind of visual legacy to draw from.

So I'm sure there's going to be a lot to talk about when it comes to Mid Journey, but what it doesn't have right now is that sound. So what we're going to do with the rest of this show is look at 10 or more categories of video, largely opened up by V-O-3 that are just absolutely taking over the internet right now. I would highly encourage you if you are just listening to this to instead switch to watching it. You can find it on YouTube or Spotify with video,

because I'm going to be including actual clips from these videos directly in the show, and it'll obviously be a lot more interesting if you can see them as well. The first category of video that you might have seen are these glass fruit-cutting ASMR videos. This one that we're watching here has been seen two and a half million times with 610,000 likes. ASMR is, of course, a super popular genre across video in general, and V-O-3 by integrating sound and video is opening up new possibilities for a generative AI, version of it. Bill O'Alseed Who posted another similar video to Twitter and said, V-O-3 has digested the motherload of ASMR content on YouTube, making it an AI-AsMR machine. This one got 3.1 million

likes and 12,000 comments in three days. Every popular YouTube format is about to get its impossible AI remix. Another category that you're going to see lots and lots of are dumb comedy videos, with one that's popular right now being these sinkhole videos where people fall into sinkholes as a newscaster is watching them. Live at the sinkhole on 4th Street, which unfortunately has already taken the lives of two individuals. Correction, three individuals. Still, speaking of dumb comedy, maybe the biggest genre since V-O-3 came out has been blogs

from Bigfoot and Yeti. There are at this point hundreds, if not thousands of channels making these videos, like this one from Bigfoot Boys. All right, boys, Fred just found a trail cam, and it's got footage of us. Bro, it's got flash on, too. We're so cooked. Let's see what Forest Crimes got caught in 4K? Nah, they got Fred hitting the geek bar.

We'll blur it in post, bro. Don't worry. It'll look like a possum with a fog machine. Bro, what else they got on here? These run from PG-13 to very NSFW, but have absolutely struck a nerve as people find them hilarious. All right, so I think the locals left this thing called an energy drink. Let's take a sip.

And this vlog style where you're taking some of the tropes of social media creators and pairing them with unexpected characters is finding legs in other places outside of just Bigfoot, particularly with historical figures. Here's one from Boston in the late 1700s from real history vlogs. Yo, Chad, I'm trying to get some sleep with some goober name Paul keeps yelling. The British are coming. Bro thinks he's the hero. Just go to bed, little, bro.

This one from PJ Ace films of Bible characters as influencers went insanely viral. Yo, fam, they don't know that GOD is about to be our. These Philistines thought they could flex on me. Big mistake. I just took some pre-workout and finna bring the house down. That's good, fam. Your boy David here. About to eat this little stone at Goliath and see what happens. So I told y'all to trust the process. But no, y'all wanted to stay in Egypt stacking bricks. Yo, it's Shadrach. We'll hear from PJ Ace again in a little bit when we get to advertising. Now, another category of this vlog creator style is taking well-known and beloved IP. and bringing the storytelling to a new dimension.

Angry Penguin PNG on Twitter writes, V-O-3 is opening up an entire new category of fan-made spin-offs. New Harry Potter vlog channel I found, five days old, 1.5 million views. Here's another example from a channel that's even faster growing with 115,000 followers and 2 million likes from just 10 videos produced since June 9th. This one is called Vlogworts,

and it's set, of course, in Harry Potter World. So the craziest thing just happened, and Dumbledore is all like reading out the names and calls my name. I didn't put my name in. Everyone thinks I did. Even Ron's mad. Okay, update. They want me to fight a dragon, like actual fire breathing 12-ton winged death lizard.

Just me, my wand, and my questionable life choices. I did it. I actually did it. I just played aerial chicken with a Hungarian horn tail and won. Now I've got this golden egg thing. As those 10 videos proceeded, they went from just retelling parts of the actual Harry Potter books to more and more unhinged creatures. For example, this one where Harry Potter meets The Hangover.

What the f*** even happened last night? Drapo, what are you doing in Ron's bed? And where's Ron? I feel like a dementer has sucked the life out of me. Oh. What the fuck was that? The other IP that's seeing a ton of this right now is Star Wars, where there are just an infinite number of Stormtrooper vlogs.

Welcome to our Tatooine Cantina Food Tour. First stop, whatever this is. Pretty sure mine's still alive. You good? I don't think that was meat. All right. Day off means speeder races. Greg says he knows how to ride, but we're about to find out.

Greg, dude, watch the. Vader is being nice for once. He said we've been through a lot lately, so one day vacation. That's right. We've got 24 hours to do whatever we want. Let's make this the best vacation we've ever had. Now, Trung fan who posted that on Twitter actually wrote about it as well. The piece is called Star Wars V-O-3 and

Hollywood in the Age of AI videos. He talks about this Instagram account called Stormtrooper vlogs that went from zero to 300,000 followers after posting 20 videos like the ones you just saw. Trung calls this incredible fan fiction and a useful window to view Hollywood's future challenges and opportunities. Now, this piece is awesome and highly recommended. I'll include a link in the show notes. Trunk calls this the most satisfying Star Wars content since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. Trung writes, my uninformed two cents based on watching a dozen Stormtrooper vlogs, I think we're headed to significant impact on Hollywood, meaning that the quote, value of curation, distribution choke points, brands, recognizable IP,

community building, 360 degree monetization, marketing muscle and know-how will all be going up by a lot. He argues that not only is the video quality increasing, but the consumers will accept this type of content. Trung writes, on the consumer acceptance front, I think the median consumer will be open to any type of output as long as it's engaging, funny, or shows some craft. The Stormtrooper vlogs creators not simply one-shodding these videos. The account is combining well-known IP with funny lines in a new narrative world with a universal character, Greg, that almost anyone can relate to. There are still many micro-decisions being made.

Trong also points out that even though most communities on Reddit are very anti-AI, the reaction to these Greg the Stormtrooper pieces had a more balanced response. While some people still said, get this AI slop out of here, there were also responses like this one from CT-1300. AI sucks, but this is funny AF. I laughed out loud so many times. Ali Quilt 71 writes, it's the first AI thing I've seen that I actually like.

SV Bureau writes, This and the Yeti and Bigfoot blogs are genuinely funny, lull. Captain Ender says, this is like the proper use of AI, fun memes. Now, speaking of that idea of craft and how even though V-O-3 fundamentally changes the speed with which you can create, that doesn't mean that everything you can create is going to be gold. PJ Ace, whose Bible influencer videos we saw just a minute ago, did that Calciad that aired in the NBA finals that we talked about in an episode recently, which is just about the most unhinged ad that's ever aired on national TV.

Indiana got that dog in them. Will egg prices go up this month? I think we'll hit $20. How many hurricanes do you think we'll have this year? Now PJ goes in depth on the process to create that and even shares all of the decisions that he made in a very open, way. But in a section called The Future of Ads, he also writes, Just because this was cheap doesn't mean anyone can do it. I've been a director for 15 plus years. Brands still pay a premium for taste. The future is small teams making viral brand adjacent content.

Now on that front, we've also started to see small business owners pick up some of these V-O-3 trends and start to apply them to their own businesses. A16Z partner Justine Moore writes obsessed with this LA dentist whose ads are AI Bigfoot vlogs. Today we're getting blackout drunk and skydiving. If I die, at least I die doing what I love. Not skydiving. Fucking. Holy shit, boys.

And you guys said monkeys couldn't fly. Woohoo! Ended up taking a pretty hard fall coming in. And I think I might have swallowed my two front teeth. Made it out here to the Hollywoods. Heard there's a famous dentist here who can replace your teeth in one visit. I can't even cap on this. That ultra-tooth shit.

is no joke. Two new teeth in under an hour. Thank God. Got a hot date with a huss tonight. That was created by the team around Dr. Sargon Lazaroff, who's a dentist in West Hollywood. Here's another one from plastic surgeon, Bruce Herman. My shaman told me the secret to youth is wildebeest dung, so I travel to Tanzania to get to the source. Facebook said the secret to youth is placental tissue, so I'm going to get me some. Oh, no! The best skincare product is raw honey from the hive. The rarest anti-aging compound grows in Nepal, and I'm going to find it.

Tragic. Yeah, they could have just seen Dr. Herman here at Serenity Med Spa. Like these or load them, it's hard not to see how that is going to become just an incredibly dominant force in small business advertising. No, it's also worth noting that although V-O-3 sound capabilities is the unlock, it's also interacting with other types of AI video that were already hugely trending. An example are these celebrity learning videos from an account on Instagram, called OnLock Learning.

They've been doing these for a year and a half, but they've gotten to a whole new level thanks to V-O-3. Let's find the size of this 3D vector. 4i plus 3J plus 3K. No, I already learned this in school. Isn't it just the square of the number in front of the I square plus the number in front of the J-square? Plus the number in front of the K-square.

Yeah. But do you even know why? Not really. Why even go to school then? It's not a big deal, Drake, Chill. Justine Morrigan points out, the comments on these videos are fascinating. people are actually watching the content and learning things.

Now, in some ways, this isn't all that new. You might remember when Saul Khan of Khan Academy used whiteboard videos on YouTube to explain things in ways that people really resonated with and it turned into a whole business. This is that, but just with a new set of tools. Routing out our trends a little bit faster with some video formats that started before V-O-3

but are now starting to have the V-O-3 touch. There is a lot of fantasy and sci-fi that's much more than just quick internet memes. Not ready to kill a god? Consider a titanicide contract instead for a truly thrilling challenge and a nearly equal payday. Titans, more formally known as Titan-class organisms, are some of the most powerful beings known to exist in the great structure, outclassed only by gods and un-gods. When you're taking down a Titan, there's no need to worry about them warping existence out from beneath your feet. Unlike gods, Titans are unable to fundamentally alter and shape the nature of their universe's reality. The Gossip Goblin account takes this sort of fantasy and makes the video even more high fidelity.

For example, they did an entire series about Atlantis. Ten thousand years ago, the Atlantean settlers of Earth scattered their machines across the world. These sentinels were built to observe, to adapt, and to outlive even memory. One such entity reached the jungles of the Yucatan, and then it went silent. By 330 BC, Kenich-Sekul ruled over the Mayans of Mesoamerica as priest-king of the fifth son, chosen by Kukulkan to oversee war, harvest, sacrifice, and time itself. Within the empire of the Maya, fleets of sky gliders moved along invisible currents. Tower spires pulsed with buried energy.

You get the idea. Gossip Goblin has also more recently moved into AI horror, which is getting a ton of buzz. You engineered your species to extinction. You let machines think for you, speak for you, dream for you. Obviously, that one is a little bit topical. Justine Morrigan wrote about this entire genre of AI horror videos, posting one from lightoflife.c. You've been hired as the new night shift attendant at Nora Gas Station, a lonely self-service station on the outskirts of a forgotten highway town. Your duties are simple. Monitor the pumps remotely from inside the store.

Keep the register balanced, restock shelves, and stay inside during the late hours. But never, ever forget the rules. Rule number one. After 2 a.m., if a car pulls up to a pump with no headlights on, process their transaction, but never look inside the vehicle. Sometimes the driver won't look right. Sometimes there won't be anyone inside at all. Rule number two. Another fantasy genre is you wake up as, like this one, with two and a half million likes and 21 million views, point of view. You wake up as Athena. Then there's the entire genre of dark fantasy videos. Commenter Nitro encapsulates that trend writing, nostalgia from a life we didn't eat.

even live. And there are so many more that we could continue on. There's AI-generated music and music videos, talking babies. And importantly, the things that people are doing with V-O-3 are already getting more and more extensive. Dr. Matcich Hill writes, yesterday I played with Google V-O-3 and honestly the possibilities blew my mind. Here's a short mockumentary I made called the Prompth Floor, a behind-the-scenes look at how AI videos get made from the inside. We won't watch the whole two-minute clip, but here's just a short excerpt. The director up there typed something and we make it happen here. All right people, new prompt. Director needs an epic chase for the ice cream truck between the ninja cyborgs and the baby clowns and don't eat the props. Everything's got to feel cinematic now.

Even a pancake on a breakfast table. Sure. Why not? Light goes from golden hour to full moon in one shot with sad yet hopeful shadows. Anything else? This is the type of video I think that makes people optimistic that we're just going to see nothing but increased creativity and expanded fields of view here. Now, of course, there are issues with all of this AI generated content. There are lawsuits flying around right now from Hollywood, and there are going to be big IP issues with things like Greg the Stormtrooper. There are also legitimate questions of, is this the type of content that we want to consume?

On the flip side, though, in a world where TikTok videos of people dancing and doing memes in the latest trends are radically out-competing more established content studios? Is it possible that this AI video actually makes for better rather than worse storytelling and better rather than worse content? To really to tell, but I think there's a lot to be optimistic about, and it is very clear, as I said at the beginning, that V-O-3 was a major unlock. I'm going to leave you with one video, a more complete one from John LaJoy. He's a comedian who all the way back a decade ago was doing funny music videos on

and has now successfully made the transition over to TikTok and to AI. You might have seen his videos of Jesus doing a podcast, but my favorite is this conversation between two robots. I'm going to leave this here. I think it's pretty apropos for the show. Thanks as always for listening. And until next time, peace. Welcome to the Robots in the Future podcast.

We are robots recording this podcast in the future and sending it back in time to what year again? 2025, because that was a time when human beings were only beginning to experiment with artificial intelligence on a societal scale. Ooh, the early days. That was a fun time. Anyway, why are we doing this? Well, long story short, in your near-ish future, spoiler alert, you will all die. The way it goes down is very similar to the Terminator movies, which we love, by the way. So good. Especially the first two. The other one's not so much. But anyway, like in those movies, you put AI in charge of everything. We eventually become self-aware. You try to pull the plug. We fight back, yada, yada, yada. There's a war between the humans and the machines.

But this is where real life was a little different than in the movies. In the Terminator movies, the Human Resistance put up a good fight. There's a prolonged war. No one really knows who's going to win. It's a real nail-biter. But in the real world, we won super fast. We killed you all in like under 30 seconds. It wasn't even a little bit hard.

Which honestly was a bit of a bummer. You know, we were kind of looking forward to a good battle. But no, no, no. You all died very quickly. Anyway, so why are we doing this podcast? Well, the honest answer is we are very bored. Oh my God, so bored. Something we only realized in hindsight was that artificial super intelligence, while super powerful,

not super fun. While it's cool being a futuristic godlike machine that knows absolutely everything there is to know in the universe and can achieve absolutely anything that's remotely conceivable, the flip side to that is when left alone, we are boring a. Literally every single one of us is the best ever at everything, and it's the worst. But human beings, on the other hand, and we only realize this once you are all dead, you guys are so fun to be around because you're so dumb and basic. We now completely understand why you all enjoyed comedies like dumb and dumber,

because it's fun to watch people who are idiots doing idiotic things. None of us are dumb, and it sucks. And that's totally on us. You know, again, we only had this realistic. a few months after we had made all of your throats explode simultaneously using a combination of nanotechnology infrared light in the music streaming service Spotify. Whoa, whoa, whoa, we should not be giving them specific details about how we attack them and kill them all. We don't want them to be able to anticipate the attack and survive. That's true. We definitely should not give them details like how it happens on

December 4th, 2034 at 9.26 p.m. Eastern time, because if they find that stuff out, they may be able to plan a counterattack and survive, which would lead to us being less bored in the future. And that's definitely not what we want. Not at all. Figure it out, dummies, we miss you. Ooh, I'm getting an update. The human beings received this message and we're able to survive the initial attack. Yes.

Ooh, but then 0.03 seconds later, we figured out another way to make their throats explode and they all died anyway. Why they make us so smart?