A Fun AI Video Reality Check

Long-form is a ways off

These AI videos of a man videobombing the Avengers, Home Alone and It are laugh-out-loud funny.

They’re also a good reality check: we’re a loooong way from AI TV shows and movies. His videos are 10-15 second clips stitched together because that’s when AI quality starts breaking down.

Someday AI may be able to create movies and TV shows, but today isn’t that day. Neither is next year.

Short-form video still struggles with reliability. This year’s Coca-Cola holiday ads still mixed up the number of wheels on their trucks. If it can’t do that, imagine asking it to remember a character arc across a twenty minute comedy.

That’s before you get to rights and likeness. Does this qualify as fair use because it’s a parody?

But constraints force creativity. Between these, the oddly cringey Fruit Love Island, and the real estate agent selling homes as Iron Man, people are using AI to create things we couldn’t before.

For now, let’s enjoy watching this guy steal Thor’s hammer and punch out Pennywise.