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Tonight the group weighs the thrills and the chills of AI: a new AI-made anthology pilot and a viral fan trailer on one side, and hard questions about who is really behind these tools, and what they might cost us, on the other.

Recorded on September 21, 2026

Chapters:
0:00:00 Brian's Effective Altruism report
0:13:06 New member Barry
0:17:36 Jeff's "Book of Secrets" trailer
0:23:02 How Jeff made his pilot
0:33:42 Jamien's lip sync method
0:36:46 Tanayi: Lanier says there is no AI
0:44:12 Protecting your script
0:49:51 Why do tools keep changing?
0:53:11 The $500 gloves story
1:00:59 Claude writes Warcraft add-ons
1:17:01 The DuckTales fan trailer
1:22:32 Which models allow famous faces
1:29:40 A Pirate Bay for AI models?

Links & Resources Shared:
Barry on Instagram: Instagram: holden.barry
Book of Secrets premiere: https://www.itsmyseat.com/TZIFF
Brian's "World of WarClaude" stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/YWHV2xWhNAg
Claude desktop app: https://claude.ai/download
ComfyUI: https://www.comfy.org/
Dreamina: https://dreamina.capcut.com/
DuckTales fan-made trailer: https://x.com/Gabriel_Olson/status/21...
Dzine: https://www.dzine.ai/
ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/
Final Draft: https://www.finaldraft.com/
Higgsfield: https://higgsfield.ai/
Kling: https://kling.ai/
Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/
OpenArt: https://openart.ai/
Seedance: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance
StarTalk: There Is No AI, Really (It's Just People): There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People),...
Suno: https://suno.com/
The Order of Herus, Ch. 1: The Order of Herus Ch.1  Dawn of the Heru
Todd on Instagram: Instagram: toddtetreault_official
Veo: https://deepmind.google/models/veo/
Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/