OK, I am probably exagerating, just a bit.
What surprises me the most are the hooks, the narrative devices. Hollywood should buy all the codes and it would be much better. (I hate those movies it makes like screws on an assembly line.)

Even in its mistakes, it gets things right. That’s exactly what I experienced with the first script I asked it to develop: the erroneous successes (intentional oxymoron).

First, I told it I was a freelancer, the protagonist (one of them) was a freelancer... and it made me... a woman. Okay, I picked images of a pretty girl. If I’m going to change gender, I’d rather be pretty.

Second, it was a story where a “web creator” revives a hardware store with personalized content marketing. But the story drifted down a path where many things could go wrong. An almost “recursive” path, almost a self-similar fractal (okay, not that much). It ended up writing a story in which a pretty “me” convinced a hardware store owner to use personalized content marketing, using personalized content marketing. Both were in a delicate situation, and both begin a successful journey. Plus, towards the end of the video, the hardware store owner recommends me to his friends... it even sets up a sequel for word-of-mouth marketing.

I asked it to use the double-fall structure, which seemed briefer and more contemporary to me than “the hero’s journey”; I didn’t have to invent too much... there wasn’t much story. It did what it could with that non-story, much more than expected. The story really becomes solid; what I gave it wasn’t even an anecdote.

Unfortunately, I used an AI voice for the reading (in Spanish they’re not even half as acceptable as in English).

Katalist.ai (another tool bought on AppSumo) did a good job with character consistency, although the hardware store looks more like a gardening supply business. But it made me quite pretty :)

I made a perfectly coherent video, generated the images (obviously, the script is what matters here), edited it, added graphics and overlays of concepts, even background music... all with tools I had never used before in about 4 hours. And it would have been an hour less if I hadn’t spent time experimenting or going back and forth with unproductive indecisions.

But what turned out best, and where I saved the most time, was in the script.

I insist, no LLM does this without good RAG or something similar, and I think I’ve tried them all. And I suppose LLMs will keep getting better. I used to think Fran Drescher was exaggerating in her concern—no longer.

The AI chat is also brilliant; that alone makes it a good buy...

PS: Again, the hooks and the narrative structures it creates are excellent.