Yung Lean
Storm director says AI copies made him want to quit filmmaking
The viral AI remakes, many built with Higgsfield's Genjutsu, have the director of the Yung Lean music video exploring legal action.
AI video
Every SLOP TV News story about AI video.
Morphic
Morphic Recast Pro swaps people in a clip from 10 photos
The update takes up to 10 reference photos so a clip with several people can recast each of them, but Morphic's post lists no price or credit cost.
Mississippi
Mississippi AG tells Colom to pull fake AI video of Hyde-Smith
Attorney General Lynn Fitch said the posts appear to violate a 2024 deepfake-election law and warned of an injunction if they were not removed.
UCLA
YouTube tops TV and film as a story medium in UCLA survey
The UCLA survey of 1,500 young people found 28.2% felt fascinated and 25.6% excited watching a story about AI, even as doom grows with age.
filmflow
FilmFlow turns a text prompt into a Blender camera path
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University-led system ships with CinemaBench, 150 Blender scenes and 750 camera instructions, but no code is released yet.
VCAT
Korean studio VCAT says it made AI action scenes for TV Asahi
VCAT says it generated characters, backgrounds and buildings for the seven-episode period drama, which premiered on TV Asahi on Oct. 23 and streams on Netflix in more than 190 countries.
ai video
Based Boomerstein: an AI made the week's newsreel, so I broke out the rhyme book
An AI newsreel covered nine stories in three minutes and ordered them by scale, from a car at 10⁰ meters to a nucleus at 10⁻¹⁵. I checked every card. Then I wrote a rap about it.
comfyui
ComfyUI adds VEED nodes to lip-sync a still photo
The three cloud nodes also re-sync a speaker's mouth in footage you already shot and cut a subject out with an alpha matte.
spain
Spain's conservative opposition ran a fake AI election ad
One person whose likeness the fabricated video used filed a legal challenge, as a majority of nine legal experts told El País the ad was not illegal.
verus-insight
Kling and Peking University publish a detector that shows its work
A Peking University and Kling team's 8B model lifts detection accuracy, but its own benchmark shows it still misses most marked artifacts.
seedance
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 goes 4K for film and television
Volcano Engine says extra training improves facial expressions and small text, and a 480p Draft mode lets teams storyboard before the final 4K render.
google
AI video's preview trap keeps retiring models mid-project
The deprecation table names gemini-omni-1.1-flash as the replacement, and the same date retires Gemini Omni Flash's own preview build.
OpenArt
OpenArt says annual revenue nears $200M with 8 million users
The AI creative platform hired Salesforce's former global brand chief, Scott Larson, and says headcount grew to 80 from 20 in a year.
ai& video
Japan's ai& launches ai& video with 12-second generation
ai& video turns Japanese text, photos and existing clips into new footage, and enterprises can train a private model on assets they own.
microdrama
Two-thirds of microdramas outside China are AI, report says
Owl & Co.'s report for the third quarter of 2026 says the AI share rose from 3 percent in the first quarter to 28 percent in the second.
Kling 4.0
Kling 4.0's API opens to developers in early access
Kling's own documentation calls the release early access while its pricing table and developer page still say the 4.0 API is coming soon.
TikTok
National Trust pauses all TikTok ads after AI ad error
The charity says it is working with TikTok to find out how the automated feature ran AI-generated ads and to add safeguards.
Kling 4.0
Omni reference: what AI video models now take as input
Kling 4.0 takes up to 15 reference assets in one generation, while MiniMax H3 and the open FastH3 Omni cap a request at 12 files.
HeyGen
HeyGen Video generates picture and sound at $0.02 a second
The model turns one prompt into a 5 to 15 second clip with dialogue, ambience and effects, and HeyGen halves the price through October 31.
deepfakes
How to tell if a video is AI-generated, and where the checks fail
Provenance data, detector models and a court's reliability test each catch different fakes, and the newest research says the pixels alone are getting harder to read.