Present Company: A Documentary About Synthetic Beings, Made Mostly by Synthetic Beings
gavinpurcell · reddit · 2026-09-27
Redditor gavinpurcell shared Present Company, a documentary about synthetic beings that is itself made (mostly) by synthetic beings — AI characters narrating the story of AI. A video preview accompanies the post, offering a novel example of AI-generated long-form video where the subject and the creator are both synthetic.
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