Two AIs got $100 each to make a music video by themselves

Someone at TryAI handed two frontier AI models the same assignment: here's Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," a budget, and a shell with ffmpeg plus access to every video-generation model on the market — now direct a music video by yourself. Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol each got a $25 run and a $100 run, and all four finished without human help, muxing the original song over clips they generated, watched, and cut themselves.

The failures are the fun part. Recurring characters change faces between shots. Tempo matching is weak, so "gotta kiss myself I'm so pretty" plays out in slow motion. And the models read lyrics with no imagination at all: "Make a dragon wanna retire, man" gets you an actual dragon on screen.

None of the four reviewed its own footage or re-cut a bad clip. The priciest run, Claude Fable 5 at $100, spent $73.65 to produce the sharpest video. The whole harness is open source if you want to stage your own bake-off.

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