Mollick: Opus 5.5 turned his otter-on-a-plane test into a video and picked his ElevenLabs voice clone on its own
emollick · x · 2026-10-22
Ethan Mollick asked Opus 5.5 to create the ultimate response to his go-to image generation test ("an otter on a plane using wifi"), and the model produced a video — spontaneously choosing an existing ElevenLabs clone of Mollick's voice as the narrator for the opening typing scene, without any suggestion from him. The post complements his article on the exponential curve of the last 30 months of AI development.
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