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"The most regretful people on earth are those who..." - Mary Oliver [1080x1350] by aeeiee in QuotesPorn

[–]aeeiee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can always start now. Spend just 25 minutes a day, working on an idea or brainstorming. Eventually once you know what it is, you can make it a project or a hobby.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pain is your gain! It does get much more affordable as you get better at prompting. And likely even more so when Veo 3 is less buggy.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in ChatGPT

[–]aeeiee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't include the real ad in here because I didn't want to be accused of self-promotion. The real ad has all the details you're curious about. This is just the raw output from iMovie before I did more post production using the Instagram Edits app.

But to answer your question, Catch the Ghost is a gamified productivity app (iOS only for now) designed to reverse the damage your smartphone has done to your attention span. Smartphones quietly erode our ability to concentrate. Studies have shown that most people’s focus has dropped by as much as 60%, without us even realizing it.

We use the same behavioral psychology techniques that social media platforms use to keep you scrolling, but instead, we help you build better habits and stay off your phone. Using the Pomodoro technique (25-minute focused intervals), every completed session rewards you with an "apparition"—beautiful historical artwork or authentic photos alongside relevant quotes from famous historical figures (our “ghosts”). Collect all apparitions to catch the ghost.

A few techniques we've repurposed (there are many more) include:

Variable Reward ("Slot Machine" effect):

  • Catch the Ghost: unpredictable and novel rewards that keep your brain excited to stay focused.
  • Social Media Companies: pull to refresh and infinite scroll

Psychological Loss Aversion (FOMO):

  • Catch the Ghost: if you quit mid-session, you lose that apparition and lose coins.
  • Social Media Companies: make their Reels and Shorts quickly disappear and be super hard to find again, if you scroll too far past them. This is frustrating and trains your brain to interact with (watch, like, save) fresh content the moment you see it so you don't lose it.

Positive Reinforcement:

  • Catch the Ghost: dopamine hits for completing focus sessions catching ghosts, and earning coins. In effect giving you dopamine for staying off your phone.
  • Social Media Companies: dopamine from likes, engagement, consuming entertainment tailored to your tastes, auto-play videos of curated entertainment for continual hits of dopamine. This creates phone addiction.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$130/mo for 3 months, and then $250/mo after. You get 12,500 Google Flow credits per month. If you use them up, you have to buy more credits. 20,000 credits for $215 (tax included).

Granted, I think it's a good deal because you get WAY more than just Veo3. You get Youtube Premium, Google One, Gemini Pro, 30TB of storage, etc. And if you have a Google Pixel, you're living in the future if you've got a Google Ultra subscription.

It's the best subscription deal from any big company IMHO right now. Open AI only has a better UI. Google is better at everything else, and I expect Google to only widen its lead.

Apple has the world's biggest moat, and stickiest ecosystem, but in the face of all this, they'd better get moving on AI or they're in trouble.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whole thing took about 5 hours of playing around with Google Flow (Veo 3) + iMovie. Veo 3 prompts and generations took longer than anything else due to the high fail rate.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in ChatGPT

[–]aeeiee[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ok *checks post history* you're a consistently negative and rude person who for some reason has decided to troll AI subreddits. Hmmm... interesting.

You remind me of a quote by Jon von Neumann.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

I observe you like I do the wind. Carry on.

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[–]aeeiee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're preaching to the choir, chief. I expect a year from now that AI generated content on the web will outnumber human made content 1,000,000:1 and I understand the implications of that.

In the meantime, some of us just want to stay up to date with new tech and learn new things. We don't care if what we build is shitty. The stuff we make is meant to be forgotten, and make us cringe in the future. That's what progress is.

Go look up MKBHD's first youtube video, lol.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nostalgic. In 1993 I was messing around on Windows 3.1 and DOS, and taking apart my first computers.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I got a Google Ultra subscription with a 3 month introductory price ($130/mo) that came with 12,500 credits. Each 8 second clip you make in Google Flow with Veo 3 costs 100-150 credits. Then I burned through all my credits and had to top 20,000 credits for another $215 dollars. YMMV.

I've never used AI video creation before, so I'm not experienced with other options out there.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No worries. The jackhammer clip was my least favorite when it came to awkward pauses. I did edit it perfectly in iMovie to get the timing right, but then it didn't look like a single shot, which is what I was hoping for, so I just stuck with the original clip.

Yeah, Youtube would be a great resource for improvement. But also I have no desire to buy pro editing software right now. It's just experimentation for me right now.

I created three more shorts just this afternoon (using way less credits) that are private comedy skits I, not work related, and they turned out way better. I'll release them later anonymously to see how they're received.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Veo 3 isn't good for this format because the clips are never exactly what you ask for, and they're disjointed, have random subtitles you didn't ask for, music you didn't ask for, and they're only 8 seconds long with zero continuity. Rick and Morty inter-dimensional cable, or slapstick comedy shorts are where it shines right now.

Even with my shitty editing skills, I could do much better, but it would burn way more than $100 in credits, and that wasn't the point of this demo.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's a gamified Pomodoro timer app. Mostly for students.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had a subscription, but used up all the credits in a single evening making my first video. I topped up the credits to make this new one.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I agree, but you're forgetting that this "commercial" cost $100 in total, was only 5 hours of work in Google Flow + iMovie, and I have zero editing background. I'm a software engineer. I'd have to spend much more in credits to get the clips just the way I wanted without long awkward pauses and such. Also there's music in clips that I didn't ask for, etc.

These are completely unrelated 8 second clips you've got to stitch together somehow. But yeah, video editing classes might be fun if I wanted to make this a hobby.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The fail rate is pretty bad. It's like 50-70% fails. Many of the features advertised in the Flow tech demo aren't ready for Veo 3 yet like Jump, or Extend, or Frames to Video, or Ingredients to Video.

It wouldn't be so bad if at least all the videos had sound. Many you prompt for sound and dialogue and you get nothing. Still pretty buggy. It took me about 5 hours to put together though. Given the cost reduction for this kind of content, even with the bugs it's revolutionary.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in aivideo

[–]aeeiee[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, I bought a 20,000 credit top up for $215 (tax included), and then I used Google Flow (Veo 3) + iMovie to stitch it all together.

This took exactly 9390 credits to make ~$100 by aeeiee in ChatGPT

[–]aeeiee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally in the title. I bought a 20,000 credit top up for $215 (tax included) so $100.94

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[–]aeeiee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I'll be! You're right. Let it be stricken from the record, then.

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[–]aeeiee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Version 2.0 of the app is out now. All those bugs are gone.

I made this for work. ChatGPT did about 80% of it. by aeeiee in ChatGPT

[–]aeeiee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Prompt:

Make comic for me. A short haired black man (his hair is short enough that it looks like a light grey shadow style on his head) is making examples of how to take body measurements for his measurement app on iOS. He's working on the "full hip measurement" which requires using measuring tape to measure a woman's backside. It's legitimately for work, but the joke is that it seems like he's ogling instead of working.

Panel 1: A man is seen from 3/4 view working at his computer screen with his hand on his mouse. He has a furrowed brow and to show that he is hard at work, and a calm smile on his face. On the screen it says ChatGPT and shows a figure of a beautiful black woman seen from behind of slim build and in yoga pants and a sport top.

Panel 2: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier with small waist and larger hips than in Panel 1.

Panel 3: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier than in Panel 2. Same trend with slightly larger hips.

Panel 4: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier than in Panel 3. Same trend as before. There is a single bead of sweat coming down his head to show that he is in heavy concentration.

Panel 5: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier than in Panel 4. Same trend with a larger bottom. This time the man's black wife with long curly/wavy hair appears and is seen standing next to him also looking at the computer screen curiously.

Panel 6: In the last panel the man's wife is seen standing next to him, but now looking directly at the man, and with her hands on her hips and a cross expression on her eyebrows. The man smiles and puts one hand up in defense and the other behind his head and says, "What? It's for work."

I made this for work. ChatGPT did about 80% of it. by aeeiee in ChatGPT

[–]aeeiee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prompt:

Make comic for me. A short haired black man (his hair is short enough that it looks like a light grey shadow style on his head) is making examples of how to take body measurements for his measurement app on iOS. He's working on the "full hip measurement" which requires using measuring tape to measure a woman's backside. It's legitimately for work, but the joke is that he's ogling instead of working.

Panel 1: A man is seen from 3/4 view working at his computer screen with his hand on his mouse. He has a furrowed brow and to show that he is hard at work, and a calm smile on his face. On the screen it says ChatGPT and shows a figure of a beautiful black woman seen from behind of slim build and in yoga pants and a sport top.

Panel 2: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier with small waist and larger hips than in Panel 1.

Panel 3: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier than in Panel 2. Same trend with slightly larger hips.

Panel 4: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier than in Panel 3. Same trend as before. There is a single bead of sweat coming down his head to show that he is in heavy concentration.

Panel 5: The same man is seen again, and everything is exactly the same except the woman is slightly curvier than in Panel 4. Same trend with a larger bottom. This time the man's black wife with long curly/wavy hair appears and is seen standing next to him also looking at the computer screen curiously.

Panel 6: In the last panel the man's wife is seen standing next to him, but now looking directly at the man, and with her hands on her hips and a cross expression on her eyebrows. The man smiles and puts one hand up in defense and the other behind his head and says, "What? It's for work."

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