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Seedance 2.0 dominated the feed as creators pushed it from text-to-video into production-ish workflows; vid2vid “restyle any video in seconds” clips frame it as a finishing layer; product UGC patterns (reference photo + prompt) show ad-ready try-on demos; a continuity stress test checks whether seating order survives wide→close-up cuts. The realism check landed hard: “one-shot trailer” posts are disclosed as multiple generations stitched together because outputs appear capped around ~15s; separate reports show “Network errors, failure to generate” in a “Fast | 5S” mode—flashy motion, but shaky uptime.

Vercel AI Gateway × Kling: Kling video models surface via Gateway with text-to-video, image-to-video, multi-shot, and first/last-frame anchoring; pricing and limits aren’t disclosed.
ARQ pipeline: 8-agent “script vault → finished video” claims <1 hour with $1000+ in FAL credits; also onboarded 5 creators in parallel to measure operator variance.
Agents (OpenClaw/Librarium): Librarium CLI fans out research to 10 providers with “7/7 passing” checks; OpenClaw users simultaneously report broken calendar/email/browser/password basics from API-key friction.

Across video and agents, the theme is packaging: routing layers and multi-step pipelines are maturing faster than reliability proofs; several “100% consistency” style claims circulate without reproducible artifacts.

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Seedance 2.0 creator wave: vid2vid, ad-ready motion, and reliability reality check

Seedance 2.0 is turning into the default “make it cinematic fast” video model for creators—but today’s posts show the real bar: spatial consistency, multi-clip editing, and outages that impact production schedules.

The feed is dominated by Seedance 2.0 clips and claims—restyling, cinematic output, and ad use cases—with creators also surfacing real-world constraints like outages and short-clip assembly. Continues yesterday’s Seedance momentum, but today adds more “production reality” signals (consistency checks + downtime).

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🎬 Seedance 2.0 creator wave: vid2vid, ad-ready motion, and reliability reality check

The feed is dominated by Seedance 2.0 clips and claims—restyling, cinematic output, and ad use cases—with creators also surfacing real-world constraints like outages and short-clip assembly. Continues yesterday’s Seedance momentum, but today adds more “production reality” signals (consistency checks + downtime).

Seedance 2.0 outages show up as “Network errors, failure to generate”

Seedance 2.0: Creators reported generation failures showing “Network errors, failure to generate,” including a UI state labeled “Seedance 2.0 Fast | 5S” in the Error screenshot. It’s the most direct “production reality” signal today, following up on Refusal loop (prompt variants blocked) with a more basic issue: clips not rendering.

Creator reaction: The downtime is being treated as a real workflow interruption rather than an edge case, as implied by the Outage hobby joke and the follow-on note in the Server issues reply.

Seedance 2.0 vid2vid restyle turns any source clip into a new style pass

Seedance 2.0: A quick vid2vid workflow is circulating that shows Seedance taking an existing video and outputting a restyled version side-by-side with the original, framed as “restyle any video in seconds” in the Vid2vid tutorial. This matters because it treats Seedance less like a pure text-to-video toy and more like a finishing layer you can run on already-shot footage.

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Practical read: The demo implies a repeatable two-track workflow (original as reference; restyled as output) rather than prompting from scratch, as shown in the Vid2vid tutorial.

Seedance 2.0 “AAA trailer” results rely on stitching multiple 15s clips

Seedance 2.0: “One-shot AAA movie trailers” is trending as a framing, with a demo clip in the AAA trailer demo, but a separate note clarifies the output is limited to ~15 seconds and the trailer look comes from editing multiple generations together, per the 15-second limit note. That distinction matters if you’re budgeting for pacing, coverage, and post.

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What to take from it: Treat Seedance as a clip generator plus an editor timeline step (assembly, matching, titles) rather than a single prompt-to-trailer pipeline, as described in the 15-second limit note.

Seedance 2.0 continuity check: pause wide shots and verify close-ups match

Seedance 2.0: A simple continuity stress test is being shared—pause on the wide shot, then confirm the seating order stays consistent when the edit cuts to close-ups, as described in the Continuity check clip. It’s a concrete way to evaluate whether a model can carry spatial logic through coverage.

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Why creators care: The test is framed like a film-editing sanity check (blocking → coverage), making it useful for anyone trying to cut multi-shot dialogue or comedy beats with Seedance, per the Continuity check clip.

Seedance 2.0 product UGC: photo-conditioned “dressing room” try-on format

Seedance 2.0: A product UGC pattern is shown where you upload a product image and pair it with a specific scenario prompt—“UGC video: A girl around 20 years old introduces this pair of stockings in a dressing room…”—then generate a short ad-style clip, as demonstrated in the Stockings UGC demo. This is the most explicit “single asset → usable promo clip” example in today’s Seedance wave.

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Adjacent example: Another Seedance-made product/process promo (automotive wrap install) is shared in the Car wrap demo, pointing at the same ad-friendly direction: concrete, demonstrative shots rather than abstract spectacle.

“No need to create sets”: creators argue set-building labor is getting displaced

Production economics: A blunt take argues physical set-building and dressing are becoming optional—“actually no need to even create the sets, just your primary model and some reference stills”—and compares the shift to portrait painters being replaced by photographers, as stated in the Sets are obsolete claim. It’s a strong statement about where AI video tools (including Seedance-style workflows) are headed in commercial production.

The post is opinionated, but it captures a recurring economic argument: the scarce skill shifts from craft labor to directing/selection, per the Sets are obsolete claim.

Seedance 2.0 gets framed as cinematic output without the production spend

Seedance 2.0: The dominant positioning today is “cinematic impact, without the massive production cost,” paired with a montage-style demo in the Cinematic impact claim. It’s less about a new feature drop and more about a creator consensus forming around what Seedance outputs are “good for” right now.

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The claim is qualitative in the Cinematic impact claim, but the repeated sharing suggests creators see it as a budget substitute for certain trailer-style shots.

Seedance 2.0 meme microfilms show repeatable short-format templates

Seedance 2.0: Multiple creators are using Seedance as a meme/microfilm engine—dance-battle framing (“Hawking vs Newton”) in the Dance battle meme, “happy caturday” tag clips in the Caturday clip, and short mood-shift vignettes in the Mood-shift short. The throughline is template repeatability: a promptable format that can be swapped with new characters/themes.

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Format signal: These posts emphasize fast iteration on a recognizable structure (versus bespoke film craft), as seen across the Caturday clip and the Mood-shift short.

A “fully AI short film” label gets applied to a Seedance 2.0 project

Seedance 2.0: A repost claims an early “fully AI” short film made with Seedance 2.0, titled “Blood Moon: Uprising,” as referenced in the Short film mention. There’s no additional production breakdown in the tweet itself, but it’s a clear signal that some creators are already packaging Seedance outputs as short-film releases rather than isolated clips.

What’s missing is any concrete shot list, toolchain, or edit details beyond the claim in the Short film mention.


🧪 Copy/paste prompt drops: Kling cinematic shots, Nano Banana design prompts, and Midjourney SREF ‘cheat codes’

Today’s most actionable content is prompt payloads: long cinematic text-to-video prompts for Kling, a 500+ prompt library for Nano Banana Pro, and multiple Midjourney SREF/style-code “cheat code” posts aimed at ad posters and editorial looks.

Awesome Nano Banana Pro Prompts: A GitHub repo is being promoted as a curated prompt library for Nano Banana Pro, with claims of 500+ selected prompts, multilingual support, and a visual gallery/preview UX, per the Repo screenshot and the summary in Repo screenshot.

One detail to watch: the post claims 2.9k stars in Repo screenshot, while the screenshot UI shows a higher star count—so treat popularity metrics as moving/approximate and rely on the repo’s current state shown in the Repo screenshot.

Midjourney SREF 3612798423 for teal/cyan “ethereal watercolor anime”

Midjourney (SREF 3612798423): A style-code post pitches SREF 3612798423 as a shortcut to a soft teal/cyan, semi-transparent “watercolor + anime” look—positioned for lo-fi album covers, mindfulness/journaling branding, and literary covers, per the SREF 3612798423 examples.

The creative value here is consistency of palette and “floaty” texture without having to spell out a long style paragraph each time, as described in the SREF 3612798423 examples.

Nano Banana ad-poster prompt: low-angle POV, oversized type, serial lines

Nano Banana Pro (Google): A “graphic design smart prompt” is shared as an ad-poster generator recipe—framed to produce a low-angle POV shot “pointing at viewer,” oversized headline/tagline typography, plus serial numbers/copyright lines and technical callouts, according to the Ad poster recipe.

The practical point is the constraint bundle: it’s less about a single image style, and more about forcing layout artifacts (numbers, legal lines, callouts) that make outputs read like finished campaign key art, as described in the Ad poster recipe.

Nano Banana Pro “keycap mosaic” prompt for clean silhouette flat-lays

Nano Banana Pro (Google): A long, highly constrained “flat lay keycaps” prompt is shared as a reusable template for making a recognizable animal silhouette from labeled mechanical keyboard keycaps—tight grid, pure white negative space, exact 90° overhead camera, and soft studio lighting, as written in the Full keycap prompt and demonstrated in the resulting images.

The prompt’s main trick is specifying no blank keycaps and demanding crisp legends across modifiers/arrows/functions, which helps the output read as a real product photograph rather than a texture fill, per the Full keycap prompt.

A JSON prompt spec pattern for photoreal “smartphone realism” shots

Prompt format pattern: A creator shares a JSON-like “prompt spec” that breaks generation into explicit blocks—subject, expression, clothing, photography (angle/shot type/aspect), background, vibe, plus constraints (must_keep/avoid) and a dedicated negative_prompt list, as shown in the JSON prompt spec (and echoed again in Same spec repost).

The key idea is turning an art-direction brief into a structured payload that’s easier to iterate: you can swap the subject block while holding camera + lighting + authenticity constraints constant, per the organization in JSON prompt spec.

Midjourney caricature preset: expressive linework with loose gouache color

Midjourney (caricature style): A creator highlights a specific caricature look using a style reference code “--sref 1710903673,” describing it as digital editorial caricature with expressive sketch linework and loose gouache fills, with multiple examples shown in the Caricature examples.

The tangible takeaway is how strongly the sref pushes facial exaggeration + painterly color blocking while keeping the “editorial illustration” vibe, as described alongside the Caricature examples.

Midjourney SREF 456250672 for “Ethereal Japanese Futurism” calm branding

Midjourney (SREF 456250672): A promptsref post spotlights SREF 456250672 as a non-standard anime-adjacent look that leans into pale blues and glow to land a “premium tranquility” tone—explicitly positioned for beauty branding and emotional album covers, per the SREF 456250672 positioning.

This one is mostly art-direction guidance plus the code; there aren’t example images in the tweet itself, so the main artifact is the style reference described in SREF 456250672 positioning.

Midjourney SREF 6314657944 for neon/glitch motion-trail poster energy

Midjourney (SREF 6314657944): Another “cheat code” post frames SREF 6314657944 as a cyberpunk-neon + glitch-art blend that turns static objects into motion trails (“Holographic Motion Flow”), aimed at kinetic posters, sneaker/fashion ads, and synthwave cover art, according to the SREF 6314657944 description.

No benchmark images are attached in that post; what’s actionable is the mapping from use case → style code, as stated in the SREF 6314657944 description.

Promptsref (Midjourney SREF report): The daily “most popular SREF” post continues as a mini art-direction memo—this entry labels the style “K-Style Aesthetic Impasto” (semi-impasto + dark fantasy) and emphasizes dramatic rim lighting and glossy texture handling, following up on Most popular SREF (the format itself) with a new Top 1 code block and analysis in the Daily SREF report.

The post includes a “Top 1 Sref” string and a written breakdown of where the look fits (game key art, webnovel covers, portraits), all contained in the Daily SREF report.

“Controlled stillness” recipe: lock the camera, let sound carry tension

Directing constraint set: A short “controlled stillness” recipe is shared for AI animation—locked camera, restrained motion, no bloom and no motion blur, then pair with an industrial synth track to create friction between calm visuals and destabilizing sound, per the Controlled stillness recipe.

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It’s a promptable/briefable constraint list more than a tool update, and it’s framed as a repeatable way to get a Moebius/Metal Hurlant tone without “cinematic exaggeration,” as stated in Controlled stillness recipe.


🖼️ Image model taste wars: Midjourney V8 anticipation vs Nano Banana realism aesthetics

Image posts cluster around model ‘taste’ and lookdev comparisons: Midjourney V8 hype/anticipation and side-by-side aesthetic judgments against Nano Banana Pro outputs. This is less about new features shipping and more about choosing the right image model for a signature look.

Midjourney vs Nano Banana Pro: creators argue over “taste” more than realism

Midjourney vs Nano Banana Pro: A creator thread argues Nano Banana Pro outputs can feel “lifeless,” while Midjourney retains a more distinct signature look—positioning V8 as a potential reset if V7 issues get fixed, as stated in Aesthetic comeback thread. The same post calls out Midjourney’s edge when combining “moodboards, personalisation, and parameters,” and uses near-absolute language like “no other model comes close,” per Aesthetic comeback thread.

What the comparison looks like in practice: A Nano Banana Pro “Cowgirl” grid gets shared as a vibe reference in Nano Banana cowgirl grid, implicitly inviting side-by-side taste judgments with Midjourney examples like Infinite identity render.

The evidence here is aesthetic and anecdotal. It’s not benchmarked.

Midjourney V8 anticipation shows up as a rolling community countdown

Midjourney V8 (Midjourney): Creators are posting “V8 is coming” teasers and fresh renders as a visible countdown, with no official ship date or feature list in the tweets; the posts read more like “get ready to rate” mood-setting than product details, as seen in V8 coming tease, V8 magic soon , and V8 rate post. It’s mostly about taste and look-signature. That’s the point.

A recurring expectation is that V8 could be a “comeback” if it resolves V7 friction people keep naming (text rendering, anatomy, prompt adherence), per the Aesthetic comeback thread framing—though none of that is confirmed here.

The “taste is the new skill” claim gets pushed back as ahistorical

Taste and aesthetics: A counterpoint argues that “taste” isn’t a newly valuable skill created by AI accessibility; it’s framed as the perennial separator between tool-competence and truly distinctive work, as laid out in Taste argument. The emphasis is on vision and aesthetics rather than tool mastery.

It’s a useful lens for why model choice debates (Midjourney vs Nano Banana Pro) keep sounding like art direction arguments, not spec sheets.

2D vs 3D A/B posts are being used as fast art-direction checkpoints

Lookdev A/B testing: A simple “2D or 3D?” side-by-side character render post shows how creators are using paired outputs as a quick art-direction decision mechanism—pick readability, material feel, and silhouette before investing more iteration, as shown in 2D vs 3D A/B.

It’s a low-effort way to make taste decisions explicit.

Midjourney “Infinite Identity” becomes a quick shorthand for a surreal portrait look

Midjourney (Midjourney): One shared “Infinite Identity” render leans into a viscous, melting-material portrait treatment—more art-directed texture than photoreal skin—serving as a quick lookdev reference for anyone building a distinctive identity visual, as shown in Infinite identity render. It’s a reminder that a single strong aesthetic can function like a brand preset.

The post lands amid broader “taste” comparisons with other image models, per the Aesthetic comeback thread context.

High-detail statue photos show up as practical reference for AI character lookdev

Reference gathering for character design: A hyper-detailed cyborg/prosthetic figure is posted as a visual “this reminds me of something” cue—useful as a reference board item for mechanical limb detailing, clear-casing materials, and sweat/grime facial texture, as shown in Cyborg statue reference. Short posts like this often end up functioning as material and detail targets.

This is less about the generator and more about taste anchors.


🧩 Pipelines that ship: multi-agent video factories, Claude→Figma loops, and AI-first asset workflows

Creators are sharing end-to-end production pipelines: multi-agent systems that turn scripts into videos, Claude Code ↔ Figma iteration loops, and AI workflows for game/mod asset generation. The emphasis is on repeatability and throughput, not single clips.

ARQ builder shares an 8-agent pipeline that targets sub-1-hour videos (via FAL)

ARQ (starks_arq): A creator describes building a repeatable 8-agent pipeline that can turn existing scripts/prompts/storyboards into a “high quality video” in under an hour, with the explicit constraint that it assumes $1000+ credits on FAL for throughput, as stated in the Eight-agent pipeline claim. The same thread frames this as a “vibe coding” sprint—feeding prior assets into the system and then running multiple scripts through it end-to-end, per the Eight-agent pipeline claim and the follow-up Sneak reference.

What’s still unclear from today’s tweets is which tools/models those agents call, and how orchestration handles failure/retries and shot stitching at the 15s-per-clip ceiling that many video models enforce.

Claude Code ↔ Figma round-trip workflow gets a full walkthrough recording

Claude Code ↔ Figma (Anthropic + Figma): A creator recorded a full “Claude Code → Figma → back to Claude Code” walkthrough and calls out practical observations on Code vs Canvas (iteration surface differences), with a promise to share a long setup prompt, per the Workflow walkthrough note.

The screenshot shows the real-world shape of the loop—editor context on one side, a browser demo in the middle, and Figma panels on the right—which is the part that tends to determine whether teams can run this daily without friction, as seen in Workflow walkthrough note.

A GTA modding pipeline tees up AI-generated assets running in-engine

GTA mod asset workflow (techhalla): A creator previews a workflow to generate custom 3D assets “100% with AI” and place them into GTA scenes, positioning it as an end-to-end pipeline rather than a single render, as shown in the GTA asset workflow teaser.

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The clip reads like “prompt → model → in-game test loop,” which is the key threshold for modding: you need assets that survive real lighting, distance, and motion once they’re inside the game engine, per the GTA asset workflow teaser.

ARQ runs a parallel-creator experiment: five people iterate the same video at once

ARQ (starks_arq): A second operational detail: they onboarded five creators to work on “the same video in parallel,” explicitly to measure how human choices steer outcomes and to identify top operators for the pipeline, as described in the Parallel creator onboarding.

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This is a concrete “throughput + variation testing” pattern: one brief, multiple human-in-the-loop branches, and a selection loop based on results rather than tool demos.

Prompting gets framed as a craft: fast concept-art iteration from text commands

Command-driven concept art (creator workflow): One post frames the differentiator as the creator who can “whisper commands to AI,” paired with a screen capture of rapid concept-art generation from a prompt, per the Concept art generation demo.

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It’s less a tool announcement and more a workflow signal: the craft is moving toward high-frequency brief writing, selection, and refinement—where the output volume is the raw material for later layout, story beats, or client review, as implied by the Concept art generation demo.

A “create first, reveal tools later” distribution tactic gets stated explicitly

Marketing workflow (icreatelife): A creator argues that effective promotion is shifting away from leading with tool tags; instead, the tactic is to post something strong enough to attract attention, then share the workflow and tools when people ask, as stated in the Toolchain reveal tactic.

In practice, that changes how teams document pipelines: the “breakdown” becomes a second artifact produced after traction, not the hook itself, per the framing in Toolchain reveal tactic.

A weekly “resource pack” format emerges for keeping up with gen-AI workflows

Workflow curation as a pipeline input: A thread pitches “7 essential resources to master Generative AI this week,” explicitly positioning the value as filtering noise into shippable workflows, per the Seven resources list. A follow-up item adds “The epic transition Master Prompt,” reinforcing that these packs mix tutorial links with reusable prompt building blocks, as shown in the Transition prompt entry.

This is a lightweight but repeatable team practice: curated inputs become a standing backlog of experiments, rather than everyone discovering tools ad hoc via timelines.


🤖 Agent builders’ corner: OpenClaw skills, research fan-out CLIs, and the agent hype cycle

Agent discussions are dominated by OpenClaw building pains and practical skill-building—plus new tooling for multi-provider research fan-out. Tone swings between hype (YC partners in crab suits) and day-to-day friction (API keys, broken basics).

Librarium CLI fans out research across 10 APIs and dedupes into agent-ready output

Librarium (jkudish): A new open-source CLI is shared as an “OpenClaw web search skill” that parallelizes research across 10 providers (deep-research, AI-grounded search, and raw search tiers) and then normalizes/dedupes results into structured output for agents, as shown in the Discord release note. The post highlights a concrete stack—Perplexity/OpenAI/Gemini alongside Sonar/Brave/Exa plus SerpAPI/Tavily—and the intent is “fan out → consolidate,” not another chat UI.

Operational detail: The setup report “7/7 providers passing” and the list of provider checks are visible in the Discord release note.

OpenClaw builders hit “basic integrations are broken” friction despite deep capabilities

OpenClaw (OpenClaw): A builder reports a sharp mismatch between “wow” capabilities and day-one reliability—OpenClaw can “self host and deploy complex shit across my Tailscale network,” but the fundamentals are simultaneously failing due to an API key error, with “calendar: broken; browser automation: broken; email automation: broken; password access: broken,” as described in the Broken integrations list. The post reads like a common agent pattern: impressive orchestration is easier to demo than getting boring, permissioned connectors stable.

Spine Swarm doubles down on “watchable” multi-agent research with benchmark claims

Spine Swarm: Following up on Research war room (steerable multi-agent research UI), a new post claims #1 on GAIA Level 3 and #1 on DeepSearchQA, plus “beats Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity,” while emphasizing that you can watch and steer each thread in real time, as stated in the Benchmark claims. The attached demo shows the multi-pane agent layout intended to make research feel inspectable rather than a single chat blob.

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Agent delegation skill: persistence beats “it should magically work” expectations

Delegation mindset: A candid note argues that many “OpenClaw sucks” reactions are really delegation failures—expecting instant competence, hitting friction, then abandoning the setup; the alternative is grinding through the boring fixes until workflows feel automatic, as laid out in the Delegation confession and reiterated in the Persistence note. It’s less about a new feature and more about a repeatable operator stance for agent tooling.

One-skill-per-day onboarding gets pitched as the antidote to OpenClaw overwhelm

OpenClaw (OpenClaw): Instead of trying to wire every integration at once, a daily “add ONE skill per day” routine is framed as the practical way to compound capability over a month, per the Skill per day challenge. The same post implies the real bottleneck is sequencing and focus, not model quality.

Compounding setup: The pitch is that 30 small skills turn into “superpowers,” as summarized in the Skill per day challenge.

Even with many deep-research tools, manual “Google + Reddit” remains the baseline

Research workflow trust: A builder says they’re “using 7 deep research tools at once” yet still trust a manual workflow more—searching, adding “reddit,” opening many tabs, and reading comments—captured in the Deep research trust gap. It’s a practical reminder that consolidation UIs and citations haven’t fully replaced the feel of direct source triangulation for fast-moving topics.

OpenClaw community shifts into live coordination with a town hall format

Tinkerer Club (OpenClaw): A live “town hall meeting about OpenClaw” shows up as a coordination move—4 speakers and ~50 audience members are visible in the Discord call screenshot shared in the Town hall snapshot. The artifact is less about product changes and more about community process: troubleshooting, onboarding norms, and shared mental models.

The agent hype cycle gets its “crab suit” moment

Agent culture signal: A meme clip of YC partners dancing in crab suits is framed as “the agent hype cycle” entering a self-parody stage, as posted in the Crab suits meme. It’s not a tooling update, but it does document the social temperature around agents—high attention, higher silliness.

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🧱 Where the models live: gateways, multi-model studios, and avatar platforms

Platform-level distribution signals show up via gateways and ‘all-model’ studios: Kling models surfaced via Vercel’s AI Gateway, creator platforms bundling many models, and avatar-video vendors pushing scalable character workflows.

Vercel AI Gateway surfaces Kling video models with multi-shot and frame anchors

Vercel AI Gateway (Vercel): Kling video generation is now exposed through Vercel’s gateway surface—covering text-to-video, image-to-video, multi-shot, plus first/last frame anchoring, as listed in the capabilities list. This is a distribution move: it shifts Kling from “use it where it’s hosted” to “route it like any other model call,” which matters when a studio wants one API contract across multiple video backends.

The tweet doesn’t include pricing, rate limits, or which Kling model variants are available; it’s a capability enumeration rather than an implementation deep dive, per the same capabilities list.

STAGES AI markets a ‘many-model’ creator hub with Seedance 2 and BYOK support

STAGES AI (Stages / NAKID): Dustin Hollywood positions STAGES AI as a model hub that will “ship with Seedance 2” plus “200+ other models,” while also pitching “BYOK” creators and enterprise use, as stated in the Seedance 2 integration claim.

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Platform packaging signal: The product framing is “every model at your fingertips,” illustrated in a STAGES UI capture shared via the product UI screenshot.

What’s still unclear from the posts is the actual catalog list (which 200 models), routing semantics (one prompt format vs per-model adapters), and whether the “200+” count includes utilities (upscalers, lip-sync, TTS) versus only base models, beyond the marketing claim in Seedance 2 integration claim.

STAGES AI spotlights ‘100% character consistency’ as a platform differentiator

STAGES AI (Stages): The STAGES AI narrative is leaning hard on character consistency as a platform feature—claiming “100% character consistency” from script to storyboard to text-to-image “in editor framing,” powered by backend agent orchestration, as described in the consistency claim.

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Tooling breadth claim: The same post says there are “119 total tools” inside the suite, suggesting the consistency feature is part of a larger end-to-end workflow rather than a single model tweak, per the consistency claim.

No verification artifact is provided (e.g., a reproducible project file or before/after failure cases), so the claim reads as positioning rather than a benchmarked capability in the consistency claim.

Google Labs’ creative experiments show up as shippable tools, not demos

Google Labs (Google): A creator-side signal is that Google Labs is being perceived as unusually prolific on consumer-creative experiments—name-checking Doppl (virtual try-on), Disco, and AISOMA (AI choreography) in the experiments list.

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A second, more concrete datapoint is that “Pomelli” outputs are already circulating as ready-to-post short vertical clips (three variants shared) in the Pomelli clip examples, suggesting these Labs projects are landing as distributable creative surfaces rather than research previews.

Pictory argues AI avatar platforms win on consistency and workflow integration

AI avatars (Pictory): Pictory is publishing a checklist-style take on what makes an AI avatar video platform “scalable and effective,” framing the decision around system traits (not single features) in the platform checklist.

The post is light on concrete implementation details in the tweet itself (no metrics, no comparative eval), but the emphasis on repeatable avatar identity and production workflow integration is explicit in the platform checklist.


🧍 Consistency systems: ‘same face’ ads, identity lock claims, and storyboard-to-character pipelines

Identity and consistency are treated as the monetizable moat: repeatable AI personas (same face across hundreds of scripts) and creator tools claiming “100% character consistency” from script → storyboard → frames. Excludes Seedance spatial-consistency testing (covered in the feature).

AI-generated “doctor” personas: same face ads scaling high-ticket health offers

AI persona ads: A creator claims $90k+/month health offers are now being sold using an AI-generated “doctor” persona—same face, same tone, “authority framing,” and “infinite scripts deployed at scale,” as described in the persona ad breakdown.

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The creative point is consistency as the conversion lever: one identity gets reused across hundreds of ad variants without production bottlenecks, per the “one identity / hundreds of variations” framing in the persona ad breakdown and amplified via the retweet reprise. Disclosure and credibility are the unresolved tension, since the pitch centers on medical-looking authority rather than a real spokesperson.

STAGES AI claims “100% character consistency” from script → storyboard → text-to-image

STAGES AI (STAGES): The project is being marketed around a specific moat—“100% character consistency” across script-to-storyboard-to-frames inside an editor, attributed to backend “agent Omni orchestration,” as stated in the consistency claim thread.

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The same post pairs the consistency claim with product scope numbers—“119 total tools” and a “March 2026” timeline—positioning this as an end-to-end pipeline rather than a single model wrapper, according to the consistency claim thread. A separate STAGES-branded UI shot also emphasizes “every model at your fingertips,” showing a multi-clip timeline and prompt text overlays in the STAGES model picker UI.

STAGES AI teases “THE 100” partner program around consistent pro-grade workflows

STAGES AI (STAGES): Alongside the “100% character consistency” pitch, STAGES teases a partner program called “THE 100,” framed as a rollout/creator network layer for the toolset, as written in the partner program tease.

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There’s also an org-level update—STAGES presented as “a solo entity” separated from NAKIDpictures—shared in the entity separation note. The posts are promotional and don’t include program mechanics (criteria, rev share, deliverables), so the operational meaning of “THE 100” remains unspecified in the tweets.

Pictory shares a checklist for scalable AI avatar video platforms

AI avatars (Pictory): Pictory publishes a “what to consider” checklist framing for avatar-video systems—positioning scalability as a function of workflow integration and consistent characters, per the platform checklist post.

The post is light on technical details (no specific identity-lock method, face/voice binding approach, or provenance/disclosure scheme), but it captures what teams tend to operationalize: consistency across outputs plus production workflow fit, as summarized in the platform checklist post.


📣 Marketing with AI: internal tools in minutes, Wall Street prompt packs, and persona-driven ad ops

Business/marketing posts focus on using AI to replace expensive functions: internal dashboards auto-built, investment-banking style prompt packs, and the broader shift toward consistent ‘controlled characters’ that convert. Excludes the ‘same face doctor’ deception angle (covered under Consistency).

UI Bakery pitches AI-built internal apps in minutes, with live data and code export

UI Bakery: A thread claims UI Bakery can generate and deploy an internal tool in “2 minutes” from a plain-language description, positioning it as a replacement for bespoke dashboard work, as framed in the internal tools pitch and reinforced by the capabilities rundown.

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Data + security posture: The pitch emphasizes connecting to “45+” backends and being “production-ready” with SOC 2 compliance, per the capabilities rundown.
Enterprise knobs creators run into: The thread spotlights RBAC, audit logs, MFA, autoscaling, and a self-host option for air-gapped setups, as described in the feature expansion.
Lock-in story: It calls out “React code export” as the escape hatch, alongside a “55,000+ GitHub stars” credibility signal, according to the feature expansion and adoption stats claim.

The tweets are promotional in tone; there’s no independent timing/latency validation in the material shared today.

A 12-prompt Claude pack markets “Goldman-style” financial models in chat form

Claude prompts (finance modeling): A creator thread packages “12 Claude prompts” for common banking workflows—DCF, three-statement models, comps, LBOs, and an investment committee memo—framing it as replacing “$150K/year” junior work and turning “10 hours” into “10 minutes,” as stated in the prompt pack opener and expanded in the full prompt list.

What’s actually included: The prompts are written as roleplay templates (“Senior Analyst at Goldman Sachs,” “VP at Morgan Stanley”) and request explicit deliverables like WACC breakdowns, sensitivities, debt schedules, and scenario cases, per the prompt pack opener and full prompt list.
Where the value lands for creators: The thread’s structure turns finance outputs into reusable “pitch book” pages and memos (formatting + checklists), which is the part that ports cleanly into decks and client-facing artifacts, as shown in the full prompt list.

No example outputs, error rates, or spreadsheet exports are shown in the tweets, so quality is unverified from today’s evidence.

A virality-first distribution tactic: stop leading with tool tags

Distribution tactic (creator marketing): One creator argues the “effective marketing” move is not tagging the AI tools used; it’s publishing work that earns attention first, then sharing the workflow/toolchain when someone asks, as laid out in the tool tagging stance.

It’s a positioning shift toward outcome-first creative proof, with tooling treated as follow-up documentation rather than the hook.

Data stewardship gets framed as the practical core of AI governance in ecommerce

AI governance (ecommerce): A short post argues “data stewardship” is the backbone of AI governance—calling out secure handling, consent frameworks, and privacy-by-design as resilience levers—and frames trust as a durable competitive advantage for platforms, according to the governance stance.

The claim is directional rather than tactical here (no tooling or implementation examples were shared in the tweet).


🛠️ Tool friction radar: slow Codex, broken integrations, and support automation fails

Beyond Seedance downtime (in the feature), creators flag everyday reliability issues: slow coding assistants, brittle automation, and support systems that can’t thread replies—small failures that block shipping.

OpenClaw reliability gap shows up as “broken basics” despite advanced deployments

OpenClaw (community): Following up on API keys friction (lots of setup keys), a real-world status dump shows the tool “can self host and deploy complex shit across my tailscale network” but still can’t handle fundamentals due to an “api key error,” with “calendar,” “browser automation,” “email automation,” and “password access” all listed as broken in the same moment per the Broken basics list.

The same author later describes a pacing tactic in their community—adding “ONE skill per day” to avoid trying to wire everything at once—as described in the One-skill challenge.

ChatGPT Codex feels high-quality, but latency is slowing iteration loops

ChatGPT Codex (OpenAI): A creator report frames Codex as a classic “quality vs speed” trade—“ChatGPT codex is very slow but also very GOOD,” per the Codex speed note—which matters because long wait times change how often people run small revisions versus batching bigger edits.

The tweet doesn’t include timing numbers, tier, or platform details (web vs app vs API), so treat this as a practical sentiment datapoint rather than a measured benchmark.

Support automation breaks when ticket tags drop from subject lines

Support automation UX: A creator shares a failure mode where replying to a support email doesn’t attach to the existing case because an auto-system requires a specific subject-line token (shown like “[blah 123456]”), causing a “Your support message was NOT received!” bounce per the Bounce message.

This is not an AI model issue, but it’s the same reliability theme: brittle automation rules can block progress even when the user follows the obvious “reply to this message” instruction.


🧱 3D & interactive creativity: AI-generated assets, city generators, and mech lookdev

3D-adjacent creativity shows up as pipelines for game assets and procedural environments, plus mech concept lookdev artifacts. It’s more ‘prototype energy’ than polished release news today.

Gemini 3.1 Pro used to prototype a browser city generator with live 3D output

Gemini 3.1 Pro (Google): A concrete “LLM → interactive 3D tool” example showed up as mrdoob shared a city generator built with Gemini 3.1 Pro, where procedural blocks rapidly populate and then rotate into a 3D metropolis, as shown in the city generator demo.

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For 3D-adjacent creators, the notable bit isn’t the visuals—it’s that this frames Gemini as a fast way to scaffold the boring parts of an interactive generator (data structures, parameter UI, render loop glue) and get to a manipulable scene quickly, with the “3.1” generation doing the heavy lifting on iteration speed and integration fidelity per the city generator demo.

GTA modding workflow preview: generate custom vehicle assets with AI, then drop in-engine

GTA modding workflow (techhalla): A teaser workflow claims custom assets can be generated “100% with AI,” then shown running inside GTA scenes—cars rendered/assembled and immediately previewed in-game, per the GTA asset montage.

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The creative relevance is the end-to-end loop: asset generation → quick iteration on silhouettes/trim/variants → in-engine validation for scale, motion read, and style match, all implied by the before/after cuts in the GTA asset montage.

Mecha lookdev reference: blueprint sheet paired with matching 3D model for continuity

Mecha lookdev (0xInk_): A useful concept-to-model continuity reference paired a detailed “MECHA UNIT-01 BLUEPRINT” (labeled scale 1:50 with component callouts) with a matching, weathered 3D mech render/model, as shown in the blueprint and 3D model.

For interactive/3D creators using gen tools, this is a practical framing device: treat the blueprint sheet as a constraints anchor (proportions, modules, silhouettes), then evaluate whether a generated 3D pass actually respects the design intent—exactly the kind of check you can do quickly with the side-by-side in the blueprint and 3D model.


💳 Plan juggling: creators optimizing subscriptions across ChatGPT and Grok tiers

A small but concrete creator behavior signal: switching between AI subscriptions to balance cost vs capability. This is light today, but it directly affects which tools creators default to.

Creators rebalance spend: ChatGPT Go + SuperGrok instead of higher ChatGPT tiers

ChatGPT Go + SuperGrok (OpenAI/xAI): A creator reports downgrading their ChatGPT subscription to ChatGPT Go at ₺249.99/month while upgrading Grok to SuperGrok at ₺1,299.99/month, explicitly framing it as reallocating budget from OpenAI to xAI for a while, as shown in the plan switch screenshots.

This is a small but concrete “plan juggling” signal: rather than paying for a single max-tier assistant, some creators are splitting spend across tools and treating subscriptions as interchangeable levers (cost vs capability vs preference) instead of a long-term commitment, per the plan switch screenshots.


📚 Research & benchmarks that change practice: prompt repetition, AGI tests, and governance framing

Research signals today skew practical: small prompting tricks that boost accuracy, plus big-picture ‘what counts as AGI’ definitions and governance notes creators will increasingly be asked about in client contexts.

Google paper: repeating your prompt twice can boost LLM performance

Prompt repetition (Google research): A recirculating Google paper claims that simply repeating the same prompt two times at inference can measurably improve LLM task accuracy, as summarized in the paper thread. This lands as a low-effort test-time trick for creators who rely on LLMs for consistent copy, story beats, shot lists, or edit notes.

The thread doesn’t include a single canonical table/chart in the tweet itself, so treat the magnitude and which task families benefit as “paper-dependent” until you read the methods described in the paper thread.

Demis Hassabis frames AGI as generalization beyond all human knowledge

AGI evaluation framing (DeepMind): A widely shared clip/thread says Demis Hassabis defines the “real test for AGI” as training on all human knowledge and then evaluating whether the system can generalize beyond that training distribution, per the AGI test framing. This is less a product update than a benchmark philosophy signal—shifting attention from “scores on today’s test sets” toward novelty, out-of-distribution reasoning, and whether new evals can stay ahead of training corpora.

For creative teams, this framing tends to show up indirectly: clients and stakeholders increasingly ask what model capability claims mean, and this pushes the conversation toward what evidence counts as “new reasoning” versus “retrieval of seen patterns,” as captured in the AGI test framing.


🛡️ Trust & legitimacy: synthetic personas, ‘AI stole my art’ fatigue, and disclosure tension

Discourse today centers on legitimacy: frustration at ‘AI is stealing / no soul’ arguments, and concern about synthetic-but-credible personas in commerce. This is less about regulation and more about how audiences decide what to believe.

AI-generated “doctor” personas are being used to sell high-ticket offers at scale

Synthetic persona ads: A thread claims $90k+/month health offers are now being sold by an AI-generated “doctor” identity—“isn’t filmed,” “isn’t hired,” with “same face across every video” and “infinite scripts deployed at scale,” per the synthetic doctor claim.

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Credibility as a reusable asset: The framing emphasizes consistent authority cues (tone, role labels like “doctor”) rather than influencer authenticity, as described in the synthetic doctor claim.
Disclosure tension: The pitch implies the conversion advantage comes from a stable identity that can be A/B-tested endlessly without production constraints, as asserted in the synthetic doctor claim.

Seedance 2.0 hype collides with “not just a prompt” disclosure

Seedance 2.0 (disclosure): A post mocks the “existential threat” tone around Seedance while sharing a meme-y comparison clip, per the Hollywood vs Grok jab.

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Capability vs presentation: The same thread adds a concrete constraint—Seedance outputs are capped at 15 seconds—arguing that “Make a Pixar film” style posts can mislead because they are multiple clips edited together, as explained in the not just a prompt note. A follow-on comment frames this as Hollywood attacking a system that learns what people watch, per the engine for preferences claim.

Creators keep pushing back on “AI is stealing” and “no soul” rhetoric

Legitimacy discourse: One creator calls it strange that, in 2026, people are still arguing “AI is stealing from us” or “AI has no soul,” framing it as an outdated moral panic in the anti theft fatigue.

Aesthetics over tools: A related post rejects “the new skill is taste,” arguing taste and vision have always been the separator—tool access changes, the bar for direction does not, as stated in the taste was always key.

Prompt showcases are triggering attribution disputes over example images

Attribution friction: A Nano Banana Pro prompt demo for keycap-mosaic animal silhouettes is posted with multiple example images, as shown in the keycap mosaic examples.

Credit request: In replies, an artist says there is “no credit” and that the visuals are their images, calling out reuse without attribution in the credit complaint; another reply echoes that it seemed like the same images and tags the artist, per the same images suspicion.

Creators publicly test whether their audiences are real humans

Audience legitimacy: One creator says they were told supporters are “only bots with a blue checkmark,” and asks their 113,200 followers to prove they are human, as written in the are you a robot prompt.

Community response as proof: Follow-up posts reinforce the same theme—welcoming new followers and asking how they use AI, per the how do you use AI, and joking that supporters are not bots but “fancy baby goat feeder,” per the not bots joke.


🏁 What shipped (or is shipping): AI shorts, animations, and experimental formats

A mix of creator drops and in-progress works: short films, personal animations, and small format experiments (puzzles, micro-edits). Coverage is lighter on formal premieres and heavier on iterative ‘posting the process.’

“Programming”: bennash releases an AI-made music video framed around “seeing through it all”

“Programming” (AI music video): bennash posts a finished music-video release positioned as a 2026-themed piece about “seeing through it all,” with the full clip shared in the Music video drop.

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The visuals lean into rapid-cut, abstract/glitch language rather than dialogue-driven storytelling, which fits the short-form “watch once, replay for details” feed dynamic.

Adobe Firefly “Hidden Objects” puzzles continue with Level .023 and Level .024

Hidden object puzzles (Adobe Firefly): GlennHasABeard keeps shipping a repeatable micro-format—one richly detailed still image plus “find these 5 objects”—explicitly labeling Level .023 as Firefly-made in the Level .023 puzzle and posting Level .024 in the Level .024 tide pool.

The format reads like a template for daily posting: a consistent title convention, a fixed object count, and an image dense enough to sustain comments and replays.

Kris Kashtanova says her AI animation went viral and she’s already making the next one

Kris Kashtanova (AI animation): Following up on Personal short (sound-led New York short), she says the response was unexpectedly viral and she’s already started a new animation in the Viral follow-up; she also calls out having 113,200 followers while questioning how many are real people in the Follower count post.

She frames the moment as a bridge between older craft and newer tools, noting she studied traditional animation and is returning to reference material like The Animator’s Survival Kit in the Animation book recommendation.

12-second looping clip workflow: generate, upscale to 4K, then spin/zoom + titles

Micro-edit release pattern: bennash describes a compact pipeline—“generate one 12-second looping clip, upscale to 4k, spin, zoom, metal beats, titles, upload”—and demonstrates the output with “Rise” in the Looping title clip.

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It’s a clear example of turning one short generation into a postable artifact via a minimal post stack (upscale + motion treatment + titling), without presenting it as a one-prompt end-to-end workflow.

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Feature Spotlight: Seedance 2.0 creator wave: vid2vid, ad-ready motion, and reliability reality check
🎬 Seedance 2.0 creator wave: vid2vid, ad-ready motion, and reliability reality check
Seedance 2.0 outages show up as “Network errors, failure to generate”
Seedance 2.0 vid2vid restyle turns any source clip into a new style pass
Seedance 2.0 “AAA trailer” results rely on stitching multiple 15s clips
Seedance 2.0 continuity check: pause wide shots and verify close-ups match
Seedance 2.0 product UGC: photo-conditioned “dressing room” try-on format
“No need to create sets”: creators argue set-building labor is getting displaced
Seedance 2.0 gets framed as cinematic output without the production spend
Seedance 2.0 meme microfilms show repeatable short-format templates
A “fully AI short film” label gets applied to a Seedance 2.0 project
🧪 Copy/paste prompt drops: Kling cinematic shots, Nano Banana design prompts, and Midjourney SREF ‘cheat codes’
An open-source Nano Banana Pro prompt library adds a browsable gallery format
Midjourney SREF 3612798423 for teal/cyan “ethereal watercolor anime”
Nano Banana ad-poster prompt: low-angle POV, oversized type, serial lines
Nano Banana Pro “keycap mosaic” prompt for clean silhouette flat-lays
A JSON prompt spec pattern for photoreal “smartphone realism” shots
Midjourney caricature preset: expressive linework with loose gouache color
Midjourney SREF 456250672 for “Ethereal Japanese Futurism” calm branding
Midjourney SREF 6314657944 for neon/glitch motion-trail poster energy
Promptsref’s “most popular SREF” format turns a code into a lighting brief
“Controlled stillness” recipe: lock the camera, let sound carry tension
🖼️ Image model taste wars: Midjourney V8 anticipation vs Nano Banana realism aesthetics
Midjourney vs Nano Banana Pro: creators argue over “taste” more than realism
Midjourney V8 anticipation shows up as a rolling community countdown
The “taste is the new skill” claim gets pushed back as ahistorical
2D vs 3D A/B posts are being used as fast art-direction checkpoints
Midjourney “Infinite Identity” becomes a quick shorthand for a surreal portrait look
High-detail statue photos show up as practical reference for AI character lookdev
🧩 Pipelines that ship: multi-agent video factories, Claude→Figma loops, and AI-first asset workflows
ARQ builder shares an 8-agent pipeline that targets sub-1-hour videos (via FAL)
Claude Code ↔ Figma round-trip workflow gets a full walkthrough recording
A GTA modding pipeline tees up AI-generated assets running in-engine
ARQ runs a parallel-creator experiment: five people iterate the same video at once
Prompting gets framed as a craft: fast concept-art iteration from text commands
A “create first, reveal tools later” distribution tactic gets stated explicitly
A weekly “resource pack” format emerges for keeping up with gen-AI workflows
🤖 Agent builders’ corner: OpenClaw skills, research fan-out CLIs, and the agent hype cycle
Librarium CLI fans out research across 10 APIs and dedupes into agent-ready output
OpenClaw builders hit “basic integrations are broken” friction despite deep capabilities
Spine Swarm doubles down on “watchable” multi-agent research with benchmark claims
Agent delegation skill: persistence beats “it should magically work” expectations
One-skill-per-day onboarding gets pitched as the antidote to OpenClaw overwhelm
Even with many deep-research tools, manual “Google + Reddit” remains the baseline
OpenClaw community shifts into live coordination with a town hall format
The agent hype cycle gets its “crab suit” moment
🧱 Where the models live: gateways, multi-model studios, and avatar platforms
Vercel AI Gateway surfaces Kling video models with multi-shot and frame anchors
STAGES AI markets a ‘many-model’ creator hub with Seedance 2 and BYOK support
STAGES AI spotlights ‘100% character consistency’ as a platform differentiator
Google Labs’ creative experiments show up as shippable tools, not demos
Pictory argues AI avatar platforms win on consistency and workflow integration
🧍 Consistency systems: ‘same face’ ads, identity lock claims, and storyboard-to-character pipelines
AI-generated “doctor” personas: same face ads scaling high-ticket health offers
STAGES AI claims “100% character consistency” from script → storyboard → text-to-image
STAGES AI teases “THE 100” partner program around consistent pro-grade workflows
Pictory shares a checklist for scalable AI avatar video platforms
📣 Marketing with AI: internal tools in minutes, Wall Street prompt packs, and persona-driven ad ops
UI Bakery pitches AI-built internal apps in minutes, with live data and code export
A 12-prompt Claude pack markets “Goldman-style” financial models in chat form
A virality-first distribution tactic: stop leading with tool tags
Data stewardship gets framed as the practical core of AI governance in ecommerce
🛠️ Tool friction radar: slow Codex, broken integrations, and support automation fails
OpenClaw reliability gap shows up as “broken basics” despite advanced deployments
ChatGPT Codex feels high-quality, but latency is slowing iteration loops
Support automation breaks when ticket tags drop from subject lines
🧱 3D & interactive creativity: AI-generated assets, city generators, and mech lookdev
Gemini 3.1 Pro used to prototype a browser city generator with live 3D output
GTA modding workflow preview: generate custom vehicle assets with AI, then drop in-engine
Mecha lookdev reference: blueprint sheet paired with matching 3D model for continuity
💳 Plan juggling: creators optimizing subscriptions across ChatGPT and Grok tiers
Creators rebalance spend: ChatGPT Go + SuperGrok instead of higher ChatGPT tiers
📚 Research & benchmarks that change practice: prompt repetition, AGI tests, and governance framing
Google paper: repeating your prompt twice can boost LLM performance
Demis Hassabis frames AGI as generalization beyond all human knowledge
🛡️ Trust & legitimacy: synthetic personas, ‘AI stole my art’ fatigue, and disclosure tension
AI-generated “doctor” personas are being used to sell high-ticket offers at scale
Seedance 2.0 hype collides with “not just a prompt” disclosure
Creators keep pushing back on “AI is stealing” and “no soul” rhetoric
Prompt showcases are triggering attribution disputes over example images
Creators publicly test whether their audiences are real humans
🏁 What shipped (or is shipping): AI shorts, animations, and experimental formats
“Programming”: bennash releases an AI-made music video framed around “seeing through it all”
Adobe Firefly “Hidden Objects” puzzles continue with Level .023 and Level .024
Kris Kashtanova says her AI animation went viral and she’s already making the next one
12-second looping clip workflow: generate, upscale to 4K, then spin/zoom + titles