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AI video is moving beyond clip slop
- Janko Roettgers
- May 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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A still from Innovative Dreams, a new production company by Luma and Wonder Project | Image: Luma/X
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Hollywood is cooked - or so a growing number of people on social media would like you to believe. Their purported proof: AI-generated clips of Daniel Craig riding a Vespa through an Italian city, Godzilla fighting King Kong, or The Avengers zooming through Manhattan.
In reality, cheap slop like this won't replace Hollywood blockbusters any time soon. However, a new generation of AI video solutions could upend how studios work. That's because, until recently, AI companies basica …
Originally published at The Verge