“Are you feeling well enough to run today?”

“Sweating is good for you.”

“Enjoy moving and being active.”

“Speeeed up!”

“Slow down.”

Just some of the messages I got through my headphones this morning, interrupting the podcast I was listening to on my weekly park run.

While tempted to throw my phone into the bushes, never to be seen again, I held on to the bitter end and worked out how to turn this unrequested workout advice off.

From the Samsung Health app, click Running > 3 dots > Settings > Audio Guide and toggle it off.

Hope this helps! 😬🤬😄

Frustratingly the panel showing word suggestions and spelling corrections above the on-screen keyboard was gone (!) after my phone upgraded to the latest Android and OneUI 😱

To get them back, go into your phone settings and download the predictive text pack. Voila! 🎉

I didn’t need to do anything else but the screenshots below show the relevant phone settings and the return of the word suggestions line above the keyboard.

This is the beginning of a list of links to the ‘best’ state of the art AI-generated* films – short or feature length and any genre.

Links are either to the films themselves or the curated galleries exhibiting them.

https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-gallery links to YouTube videos e.g.

The Curious Refuge channel is a great place to kick off an exploration of examples of the state of the art in AI generative techniques and films themselves

https://youtube.com/@curiousrefuge

They run competitions too e.g. AI Sketch Comedy films

https://aiff.runwayml.com/ links to unlisted YouTube videos e.g.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-meyer-976339160_this-could-be-the-scariest-halloween-film-activity-7389892778144735232-6CYY

https://x.com/TashaCaufield/status/1930654346145939489

https://x.com/MarkLalonde68/status/1984441413258367284

https://x.com/billywoodward/status/1973364986807459915

Hooroo Jackson (https://www.instagram.com/hooroojackson) has created “the first fully AI CG Animated Feature Film” with two versions of the main protagonist. https://escape.ai/watch/6933ec8e538a0a7cb5fabfb8

WickedAI (https://youtube.com/@wickedai) makes AI videos and streams the creative process on Twitch under the account MajinBuu

There are several reddit sites like https://www.reddit.com/r/aifilm/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/ which contain films of very variable quality so finding the gems can take a lot of digging e.g.

https://filmfreeway.com/RedRocksAIFilmFestival has details of the Red Rocks AI film festival and this is one of the finalists

https://melies.co/ai-film-festivals is a list of AI film festivals with links to them e.g.

https://aineuwave.com/

https://www.bestaifilms.com/ links to several films but the quality is variable and since many of the films are over a year old, technology has moved on significantly.

The Arizona AI Film & Art Festival https://www.aifilm3.com/ is making winning films available through RadTV.com https://rad.live/ (some films can be viewed without a login)

Some AI film makers self publish e.g. https://x.com/BLVCKLIGHTai on YouTube

and other new platforms like https://escape.ai/ and https://x.com/aimusicvideo

https://escape.ai/watch/68d7246a8361109fa9d7cfb8

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If you know a site or have a film online which you think is up there with these please leave a comment and I’ll add to the list.

*AI-generated films are made through workflows that employ an AI video generator like Veo 3.1, Sora 2, LTX 2, Hailou, WAN 2.5, Kling, Runway, HeyGen, Pika, Adobe Firefly, Luma, Grok, Seedance, etc.

The tools can be accessed either

• natively through the provider’s own website or app
• via an AI tool aggregator (aka all-in-one AI generation platform) like openart.ai, higgsfield.ai
• via a locally installed software AI workflow platform like ComfyUI.

A typical workflow involves taking real or generated images, extending them into video, upscaling and adding real or generated dialogue, sound effects and music. The process may optionally be preceded by a script/storyboard stage and followed by a video editing stage which assembles the various elements into a coherent work.