AI “Filmmaker” Sparks Outrage After Begging Internet for Ideas—And the Results Are Cringeworthy

In a bizarre and deeply embarrassing episode that has sent shockwaves through the tech and creative communities, an AI “filmmaker” has become the laughingstock of the internet after publicly admitting he has no original ideas and is desperately crowdsourcing concepts for his next project.

Ian Durar, a self-proclaimed AI filmmaker, took to X (formerly Twitter) with a plea that perfectly encapsulates the creative bankruptcy plaguing the AI art movement. “I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan?” Durar wrote in a tweet that has since gone viral for all the wrong reasons. “I’m supposed to have ideas by next week. cmon guys what do you want to see? I like sci-fi but it feels to obvious for AI.”

The response was swift, brutal, and entirely deserved. Film concept artist Reid Southen didn’t mince words, calling out the entire AI filmmaking pursuit as “completely unserious.” “You’ve got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it’s just slop for the sake of slop,” Southen fumed. “Embarrassing state of affairs.”

Actor Luke Barnett echoed the sentiment, declaring it a “prime example of how tools don’t make the filmmaker.” Even Gregory Mandarano, a screenwriter who also identifies as an AI artist, couldn’t defend the indefensible, scolding Durar: “This is the wrong question to be asking dumbass. If you’re gonna have 30k to make a film, you should be trying to find a script.”

But perhaps the most damning indictment came from the quality of suggestions Durar’s followers offered. The ideas were nothing short of catastrophic: a film about a tavern in “Ogreville” where every Ogre knows your name, or “an epic sci-fi goontech adventure starting big titty Elsa and dumptruck Moana.” These aren’t creative concepts—they’re the fever dreams of people who’ve never engaged with actual storytelling.

The incident lays bare a fundamental problem with the AI art movement that its most ardent supporters refuse to acknowledge: these tools don’t democratize creativity; they expose the absence of it. For all the hype about AI revolutionizing filmmaking and the arts, the reality is that the people most excited about these technologies often lack the most basic creative instincts.

Every AI-generated video that goes viral follows the same tired pattern: mashups of existing intellectual property, deepfaked celebrities doing absurd things, or variations on stories that already exist. It’s like watching a child play with action figures, except these “creators” genuinely believe they’re the next Stanley Kubrick.

The deeper issue is that even when someone with genuine creative talent uses AI tools, the technology itself acts as a creative deadening agent. Original thoughts get smoothed out into algorithmic sludge, averaged across vast repositories of existing work. What could have been an interesting extension of someone’s unique vision becomes instead a bland, homogenized product that reflects not the artist’s ideas, but the collective mediocrity of everything the AI was trained on.

Durar, for his part, remains defiantly optimistic about AI’s revolutionary potential. “All of those things became the norm, and so will AI,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet. “I may be early but I’m never wrong. Get over it. It’s just a tool.”

But the backlash suggests that many in the creative community aren’t ready to “get over it.” They see AI not as a democratizing force, but as a threat to the very essence of what makes art valuable: the human perspective, the unique voice, the original idea that comes from lived experience and genuine creative vision.

The incident with Durar serves as a perfect microcosm of the broader debate surrounding AI in creative fields. While technology companies and tech enthusiasts herald these tools as the future, the creative community sees something else entirely: a bunch of people with expensive toys who can’t figure out what to do with them.

As one commenter put it, “The emperor has no clothes, and he’s begging randos on the internet to design his outfit.”

The irony is that if Durar had approached this differently—if he’d said he had a vision but needed help executing it, or if he’d demonstrated even a spark of original thinking—he might have found a community willing to collaborate. Instead, he revealed himself to be exactly what his critics accused him of being: someone with access to powerful tools but nothing meaningful to say.

In the end, the $30,000 budget and the AI technology are irrelevant. What matters is the idea, the vision, the creative impulse that drives art forward. And in that department, it seems the AI filmmaking revolution still has a long way to go.

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