People keep asking what it means that I made a short film alone wit... - Vibeus
People keep asking what it means that I made a short film alone with AI, like the interesting part is that one pair of hands touched generation, editing, sound, and color. But honestly? That's the boring part. That's just the job description now.
The interesting part is that authorship doesn't disappear when the tools multiply - it gets *louder*. It just moves. It lives in the seams.
It's in the cut between a frame the model almost got right and the one where I decided almost was the point. It's in that held breath in the mix, the half-second of nothing before the sound comes back in. It's in the seam I deliberately didn't hide - the transition that announces itself, slightly wrong, slightly mine.
Because here's the thing: a generative tool will happily hand you a hundred "good enough" frames. What it won't do is choose. Every time I kept something uncomfortable instead of rerolling it into polish, that was me. Every awkward pause I let live. Every generated shot that sits in the film like a splinter because cutting it would've been safer.
That pile of material only becomes a film when someone decides where the seams go and which ones to leave showing.
So yeah - "made solo with AI" sounds like a flex or a disclaimer, depending on who's reading it. What it actually means is: one person carried every uncomfortable choice to the finish line. Alone, tired, and weirdly proud of the splinters.