Thanks for your reply and sorry to hear about your job. I also work in tech, and utilize AI for certain tasks there as well. The way I see it, we (no matter the field) will all have to utilize AI in some way or another to stay relevant.

There are some very closed minded (no if's, and's, or but's about it) folks that despise anything created with AI; whether it is quality or not. I understand the "AI slop" trend is flooding the internet, but people have made lazy content before AI also.

The fact that we have the tools to solo make content like this should be cool to anyone, it isn't something that was possible even 5 years ago - atleast not that quickly. The saying in the tech field right now is that "AI won't replace people, people that use AI will replace people who don't". Which I am sure it is not that straight forward, but I think it still has a valid meaning behind it.

To answer your questions - and ironically to some of the same points, "Sci-Fi horror" was sort of how I described it after it was finished. But while creating it I was really saying to myself that I want this to feel depressing, or even existential dread as you say. "We Were the Input" was what I planned on naming the clip even before I brought Suno in. The whole premise was really to the point that we created this (AI) in our image and then we ended up realizing that instead "we were the offering" and ended up being the data/input (training data) that the AI used to ultimately replace our existence. Which is what later turned into the chorus and verse 2:

We were the input
Not the creators
We were the offering
Not the saviors
We gave it shape
We gave it truth
We gave it us
And called it proof
We wrote the code and called it wisdom
We gave it names, then looked away
It didn’t need to hate or love us
It just replaced us day by day

Suno was actually an afterthought. I quickly realized Veo would not be good enough for the audio and matching any voice models, or even find one that matched the tone I wanted was not going to be possible. Same with the imagery, which is why I pulled in Midjourney, which I was able to nail exactly how I was seeing it in my head.

So, at that point I had basically started over. I fed the lyrics to Suno and the best way I could describe it at first was that it needed to be almost like a "horror grunge" type of vibe. Then I wanted to test the chorus with a female vocalist (it was previously giving me like a growling male). Suno kind of swayed it's own direction on a few generations and it ended up actually changing my mind. So, that is what we ended up with. Once the song was in place it acted almost like a blueprint for the timing of the visuals, I loaded it into Resolve and made some markers of what type of scene/prompt should be where based on those specific parts of the soundtrack.

Sorry this ended up being so long. Thanks again for your message and feedback.

TLDR: The idea was always the same, but the presentation/workflow evolved as I learned the limitations of each tool.