INSOMNIA STREAM： END OF NOVEMBER EDITION

Stream Summary

In this stream, Devon Stack discusses the process, challenges, and implications of creating AI-generated video content, focusing on his recent project "The Whitmans." He explores the technical hurdles of AI video and music generation, the future of right-wing cultural production, and the impact of AI on creative industries. The stream also features commentary on Thanksgiving, audience questions about movies and TV shows, and practical advice on prepping and economic uncertainty. Devon emphasizes the importance of entertainment value in political media and the need for adaptability as technology transforms creative work.

• Behind-the-scenes look at making "The Whitmans" AI video project
• Technical and creative challenges of AI video and music generation
• Discussion of AI's impact on art, film, and stock media industries
• Reflections on right-wing cultural production and messaging
• Viewer questions and recommendations for movies and TV shows
• Commentary on prepping, economic uncertainty, and asset diversification
• Insights into AI censorship, moderation, and future regulation
• Advice for aspiring creators on using AI tools effectively

Sources

• The Whitmans (AI Video Project by Devon Stack) – Odysee: The Whitmans
• Emily Youcis – Will Stancil Cartoons – X.com

Key Points of Wisdom

• [00:09:55] "I am a mess right now... but it is what it is. Fighting the good fight, because it just had to be done."
  On perseverance and creative drive despite exhaustion.
• [00:13:28] "They basically make a digital brain... and after they've showed it all the video, they start telling it what some of the things in the video is, but it's not as specific as you might think."
  On the complexity and opacity of AI training and labeling.
• [00:20:57] "You're having to fight with it to get it to just do some really normal stuff. But eventually you start to realize what prompts work and what words maybe throw it and make it freak out."
  On the trial-and-error nature of working with generative AI.
• [00:27:13] "From the moment I had the idea... by the following Thursday, so in less than a week, it was done. It was 100% done."
  On the speed and possibility of new creative workflows with AI.
• [00:31:40] "That's what's going to separate the good AI stuff from the bad AI stuff. Because if you don't have an eye for it... you just plop it in the timeline."
  On the enduring importance of taste and discernment, even with powerful tools.
• [00:34:45] "That's when the craft part of it comes into it. So that's really how it's going to be with AI, where... you're going to have all these people who suck at making stuff suddenly have access, and they're going to make a bunch of stuff that sucks."
  On the democratization of creative tools and the resulting flood of mediocrity.
• [01:04:01] "We need more right wing culture, right? Not propaganda... the average person couldn't just sit down and enjoy."
  On the need for entertaining, accessible cultural production rather than overt propaganda.
• [01:12:24] "Entertaining the audience should always be your number one goal. Second place is your message."
  On prioritizing audience engagement over ideological messaging.
• [01:23:28] "AI is actually going to be what is making those chips smaller and making the hardware more efficient and writing the software to run better on it."
  On the recursive, accelerating nature of AI development.
• [01:26:36] "You can't just point to where this is the part of the AI that decided... you wouldn't even know where to look to find out why it decided to make this mistake."
  On the 'black box' problem and unpredictability of advanced AI systems.
• [01:50:00] "There will come a time where it's just going to be autonomous, and it's going to be smarter than us... either we become its slave or it becomes our slave."
  On the existential crossroads posed by artificial intelligence.
• [02:17:00] "I always have recommended people prepare like Mad Max could happen tomorrow... if you do that, you don't have to worry about it."
  On practical preparedness and resilience in uncertain times.

Hyperchat Summary

• [1:45:37] love and division: Devin the Whitman's was excellent, by the way. You know they are talking about putting AI in charge of government policy. I heard Israel was using AI to drone strike in Gaza, Trump will want to use it to go after anti Semites. I would like to see ai do my idea for the based movie breaking point.
• [1:55:27] dirt meat enjoyer: You white people are too racist to understand the pleasures of eating dirt meat. Absolutely, absolutely.
• [1:56:02] Phase: Hi, Devin. I'll catch the replay as per usual. I hope you and your family had a good Thanksgiving. Just put my Christmas lights up today. Tis the season. Merry Christmas to you and everyone else in the chat.
• [1:56:40] Gorilla hands: I hope you and everyone else had an excellent Thanksgiving. Devin, have you seen the Sperg out from the whatever podcaster Andrew Wilson, I believe it is. Andrew went off on some lesbian because she called him out on being a cuck, which he kind of is, if his wife had two or three kids from as many baby daddies lost his cool.
• [1:57:56] Gorilla hands: This is not a stream suggestion, but I was wondering if you or any of the audience has watched the alien invasion show Falling Skies. I watched the first season but eventually stopped playing or paying and watching cable. I've been watching clips of it on YouTube, and I'm wondering if I should rent the full show at the library. I have never, I guess people in the chat can put them.
• [1:58:28] Gorilla hands: I've never seen it. I haven't seen anything alien related in a long time. Actually, I like look as far as fiction goes, I like me some, some UFO Alien Abduction type fiction. I'm not gonna act like I don't. I do. I like that stuff.
• [1:59:28] Gorilla hands: I like what I've seen on YouTube, but I believe Steven Spielberg had a part in the show's production. Knowing what I know now, he makes me physically ill.
• [2:00:05] Gorilla hands: Speaking of physically ill, you should do a stream on Philadelphia. I was watching clips of that was becoming ill. Really good movie with big stars. Tom Hanks is HIV positive lawyer who was fired from his firm for discrimination.
• [2:01:10] Mark, espy: Movie recommendation, evil in clear river from 1988 starring Randy Quaid, like someone designed a movie just so you would break it down 40 years later.
• [2:01:32] Mark, espy: Evil in clear river from, I have never heard of that. I have never heard of that. Let me look this up. Let me put on my notes first, actually, before I forget, I have, I still have all these text files open from where I was, like, writing prompts and saving prompts in different text files. And my computer hasn't, hasn't been turned off this whole time, so I have all these fucking windows open. Ah, let's see here, evil in the clear. What's a IMDB? Say about
• [2:03:07] Claude: There's a great artist I know named Sven Stoffels. He's the guy that does the America man cartoons on x, and does Butch kill again graphic novels. He's friends with Emily yuccas. Sven always says that AI won't kill artists careers, but instead, it's a new tool that artists can use to create their works.
• [2:04:01] I'll see one: Lover or hater. Lana Del Rey is a good example of popular right wing coded music that leftists enjoy as a guilty pleasure, and it follows your edict of not hitting the audience over the head with it.
• [2:08:00] I'll see one: Because I think there's people like that, and I'm not familiar with this, this person, but as long as look, if you, if you want, if you get in a position where you have an audience, it's incumbent upon you to use that to influence them in the service of our people at this very dire time where we're facing an existential crisis. And if you're not doing that, and what audience is, big and small.
• [2:10:13] Sacred squirrel: Your AI vid was great. Like to see The Turner Diaries movie done with AI. My off grid adventure is ready to start. Never forget, our nuts are sacred.
• [2:12:08] Sacred squirrel: Getting your shirt. Who the hell doesn't like dirt meat? Well, I don't know. I don't I'm not a fan of dirt meat. Dirt meat.
• [2:13:52] horrible hangover: Do you have a sense that there is an economic crash coming soon? What do you plan to do to shelter your assets? Or what do you think would be wise?
• [2:18:41] horrible hangover: Is it okay to order merch from the existing store, or should we hold out? Would you ever re release old shirts?
• [2:19:44] hot dogs for sale: My boy loves Sabaton, so I've been making songs in suno about each crusade in their style. He's learning White History non stop. Great short film.
• [2:22:21] handsome Sven: He fought it up to the Supreme Court of Canada and unfortunately lost so that show on an earlier super chat reference could be said to be based on true events. Yeah, well, I'll definitely, I'll definitely check that out.
• [2:22:54] Zazzy mctazzbot: A few streams ago, you played Grimes Oblivion at the beginning. He put a smile on my face. It's one of my very favorite songs. Thank you.
• [2:23:15] Zazzy mctazzbot: He put a smile on my face. It's one of my very favorite songs. Thank you.
• [2:23:34] Rupert: Replay gang here. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Professor stack, see you on Wednesday. Good night, H, H and T and D. Well, I appreciate that. Rupert.
• [2:23:56] Mr. Nowhere: Use seer. Ai, you can get access to video modes without censorship. Like Sora, I tagged you with a video of Hitler lifting weights on open AI, you can't do that. I'll take a look at that. The big issue, too, like I said, You got to remember, is the time, the render time.
• [2:26:02] Rhea 1981: Hey, Dev, J Ray night, tell you on here. In my humble opinion, we need to. We need more pit jump cuts. Thanks. Advance Heil, now we're moving slack on the pit. Where's my I don't know where my pit button is anymore.
• [2:27:21] yo Jimbo Rockford: You have been on a roll lately, and the outrage edition reminds me of my days working in ball or Bail Bonds. If you think Jew judges are bad, you haven't had to argue your case to a sassy black sister on the bench. Dallas County had several and they would all out shanequa each other with their incompetence.
• [2:28:09] man of low moral fiber: Thanks for the stream. There is a very faint, high pitched buzz coming through when your mic is picking up your voice tonight. That's probably my heater. Haven't noticed it on previously, but wanted to give you a heads up.
• [2:30:57] Gravy. Bear: The best argument that Jesus was a nationalist is the story of the Canaanite woman. He says that helping foreigners is like taking food from the babies to feed the dogs.
• [2:31:30] man of low moral fiber: I think the YouTube channel, hard archive vinyl, and I don't know how they they're not banned yet, is making some decent, funny and well, made AI songs.
• [2:31:52] Based in space: If you haven't seen begonia yet, you should a beekeeping conspiracy theorist is made out to look like a fool, but ends up being right at the very end. You might find it entertaining. I sure did well.
• [2:32:00] ormegami: Ormegami says, generate blood, Caro syrup. Caro syrup pouring out of the bottle, Caro syrup pouring into a Pyrex bowl. Oh, you know what I had to do this. You guys might find this funny. Let me see if I can easily pop this up. There's a scene where the Indians are hacking up to death the guy, and there's blood splattering all over the place. And I want to show you how. Let me see if I can find out I had to crop it. Let me see if I get the actual shot. Also, they kept making him look Japanese. There's just no way around that. I eventually just gave up and said, so what?
• [2:32:14] megami: Emily gets it, yeah, like I said, she's probably the first one is, well, the first one I've seen that made good AI stuff, you know, in terms of, you know, political right stuff, or megami, ormegami says the blue the fuse song would make a good end credit song to a technocracy, dystopian, collapsed society movie.
• [2:32:53] ormegami: There you go. Ormegami says, generate blood, Caro syrup. Caro syrup pouring out of the bottle, Caro syrup pouring into a Pyrex bowl.
• [2:35:18] ormegami: The Whitman's was very entertaining. The narcissistic parts, or Narcissa parts, would be a great way to teach if providing a disclaimer to the Normie viewer and maybe a bonus features vid to clarify fact versus funny.
• [2:43:14] the shadow band: Holy shit, you put a lot of work into that mockumentary.

Hyperchat Contributors

• Love and Division
• Dirt Meat Enjoyer
• Oh. Phase
• Gorilla Hands
• Mark, espy
• Claude
• I'll see one
• Sacred squirrel
• horrible hangover
• hot dogs for sale
• handsome Sven
• Zazzy McTazzbot
• Rupert
• Mr. Nowhere
• Rhea 1981
• yo Jimbo Rockford
• Man of Low Moral Fiber
• dagtastic
• Tomahawk
• Gravy. Bear
• Based in space
• ormegami
• megami
• the shadow band