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AI Machinima uses generative AI to create video scenes in the style of immersive 3D game environments, instead of directly using a game engine for their production. They are \u201cparatexts sans texts\u201d (Bittanti 2025). Video Game That Don\u2019t Exist<\/em> (Nolan 2025) is a series of vignettes and short stories edited together from 5 second clips generated with text prompts in Open AI\u2019s Sora (2024). The online video training base of the AI model is revealed through unintended extra details, for example the superimposing of game streamers into the scene. Gen AI\u2019s current limits are also exposed through animation glitches where movements blend and contort in an unpredictable manner.

Rather than attempt to edit out these anomalies, AI\u2019s unpredictable factors are embraced. In Video Games That Don\u2019t Exist<\/em> we see a mix of the familiar and the absurd channeled through the aesthetic constraints of Sora\u2019s training data, as humans and farm vehicles merge and dislocate akin to the atoms of the old man and his bicycle from Flann O\u2019 Brien’s The Third Policeman (1967). Sora\u2019s linguistically agnostic text sometimes makes partial sense, like a type of AI Esperanto, contributing a surreal language neutral layer. Borrowing from the philosophy of circuit bending pioneer Reed Ghazala, these accidental glitches aren\u2019t considered bugs in the context of Video Games That Don\u2019t Exist<\/em>, but an integral feature of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI Machinima uses generative AI to create video scenes in the style of immersive 3D game environments, instead of directly using a game engine for their production. They are \u201cparatexts sans texts\u201d (Bittanti 2025). 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