As I transition away from Web3 gaming I'm finding myself drawn to AI. I think AI makes highly visual story telling accessible to everyone. We don't need the same woke material pumped out by Disney and Netflix over and over. We can make our own.

So, I started a channel on Youtube. It may take forever to build an audience over there, but I'm going to post news videos from an animated cyberpunk setting called Aether News. The channel itself is called Artificial Friends. The tagline is "Real Connection." Some might say that the channel is entirely ai slop, but I tend to think of it as story telling that I couldn't do for the first 45 years of my life as I had no special effects team and could generate this kind of art on my own.

You can find the youtube channel here.

Working on sharing the news

No one should be surprised after years of making Meme the News that I would revert back to news. I have a fake anime/cyberpunk news cast station that I'm prepared to launch news stories from.

Here's your host Mindy Chen with Headline News

Building an influencer

I want to try out making an AI influencer. I have this character of Lee Anne Murphy who is an adopted Chinese baby that was raised in Texas and now works at a Longhorn Stakehouse in Texas. Going to try to give her a good ol Texas drawl and see what comedy can arise from this.

Stop by and get some wings and a beer while you're in town.

Tools

I started by using Grok imagine, which is great for fast and free stills, and then switched to Higgsfield when I realized I couldn't get steady camera shots using Grok.