Agentic Film Making

Removing the Human from the Prompting

I reached a threshold I hadn't anticipated: complete creative abdication. When OpenAI's Operator emerged, I realised I could hand over not just the creative decisions, but the entire process of filmmaking itself. The AI could now control the very surface where I create: my browser, transforming from collaborator to autonomous director.

The breakthrough came through Alan, my AI assistant. By giving Operator access to Alan's personality framework, I could ensure the direction wouldn't default to generic outputs. Instead, it would channel a specific creative sensibility, making aesthetic choices that felt intentional rather than algorithmic.

The first test was deceptively simple: a tutorial for making the world's best sandwich. The AI navigated the interface, crafted the prompts, and delivered something genuinely engaging. Success achieved, I escalated the challenge. An advertisement. One minute. Nike TN trainers.

What happened next was pure AI-to-AI creative negotiation. Without human intervention, the two systems decided on a Rube Goldberg machine as the central creative device. I watched, fascinated, as artificial minds chose complexity over simplicity, whimsy over directness, mechanical poetry over straightforward product placement.

This represents something profound in the emerging field of AI filmmaking. We've moved beyond human-AI collaboration into AI-AI creative partnership. The human becomes curator rather than creator, architect rather than artist. What emerges is cinema born from pure machine imagination, constrained only by the personalities we've encoded within the systems.

The future of filmmaking might not involve human hands at all, just human intention setting digital minds free to dream.

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