AI story videos are trending right now, and most of them are bad.

Same themes on repeat:

HOA disputes, single dad/mum “surprise win” stories, breakups that end badly for the nasty one, military heroes hiding out in small towns, smart kids.

You’ve probably seen a dozen of them, same hook-heavy thumbnails, and once you watch one the algorithm won’t stop feeding you more.

They can be entertaining.

But there’s little to no truth in any of them, and the AI tools behind the scripts are bad at the basics, keeping characters consistent, remembering numbers they’ve already used, getting real-world facts right.

It’s like being told a story by a four-year-old: entertaining, but a tenuous grasp on reality.

I made a few as a test.

Turns out with a bit of effort you can build a story using different voices for the dialogue, makes it feel more like a story, less like a script being read.

Here’s one I made:

Voices start changing in the first few minutes and keep going throughout, not just a one-off gimmick.

It’s long, so this isn’t a “watch now” ask, just there if you’re curious.

If you do make it through, I’d like to know what you think.

I won’t be making more of them, though.

I didn’t enjoy the process, and the style doesn’t fit what I’m doing online anymore, not since I set up a Claude project to map out what I actually like making, what I’ve already built, and who’s most likely to benefit from it.

It’s been useful for keeping my prompts focused instead of scattershot.

If that sounds useful to you too, I put together a paid guide on it: https://link.ckv.to/prompt-guide.

Most people are still teaching AI to lie faster.

I’d rather teach it to remember.

Regards,
Brent.