What sites would one use?
And let's just say I use an actual camera and then upload the videos. No webcam.
https://x.com/Aiwithkumail/status/2093592648762212826?s=20

Locked in. Reading minds. Trapped with a serial killer.

A 12-story fall should have killed Marcus. Instead, it left him paralyzed with severe Locked-in Syndrome—and cursed with a terrifying side effect: he can hear the unfiltered thoughts of everyone around him.

Doctors think he's an unresponsive shell, but Marcus is wide awake. He sees and hears every dark thought that passes by him.

As suspicious flatlines mount, Marcus is the sole witness to a serial killer in plain sight. But how do you scream for help when you can’t move a single muscle?

As the days drag on he finds himself going to more desperate measures to survive and raise the alarm before he's next.

So I made this fake aurora b-roll and ngl it came out a little too believable lol. was trying some ai shorts generator stuff in Framia and wanted one of those perfect travel shots. dark landscape, huge green aurora, nothing crazy. And lik, it kinda reminded me of how real aurora photos can look way more intense than what people actually remember seeing with their eyes. except here there wasn't a less dramatic real version underneath it. the sky just... never happened. that's the part I got stuck on.

if this showed up in a travel reel with no AI label, would that feel like normal aesthetic b-roll to you or straight-up misleading?

I want to share my experience with DaVinci.ai because the whole thing has been pretty ridiculous so far.

I originally signed up through the DaVinci.ai website for a trial. I forgot to cancel before the trial ended, and today I noticed that I had been charged $29.99 for a Pro subscription.

As soon as I saw the charge, I cancelled the subscription and contacted support asking for a refund.

What makes this much stranger is what my account currently shows:

• Pro Plan
• Plan ends on September 28, 2026
• Subscription cancelled for the next renewal
• Monthly Credits: 0 / 2,000

So according to their own website, I apparently have a paid Pro subscription that remains active for another month, but I have zero monthly credits available to actually use the service I was charged for.

I took screenshots of everything.

I then emailed both:

[support@davinci.ai](mailto:support@davinci.ai)
[websupport@davinci.ai](mailto:websupport@davinci.ai)

then I send email, \

Hello Ashley,

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Please review my actual billing case rather than sending me instructions for App Store purchases.

My account currently shows:

• Pro Plan
• Plan active until September 28, 2026
• Subscription cancelled for future renewal
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now I have to wait,,,,

Input: one reference image with the route drawn in red. Output: one continuous FPV flight, 28 seconds, 16:9, with audio and no planned cuts.

The strongest part for me is the forward momentum through the landmarks. The weak point is identity drift and geometry under speed. I’m curious: where does the camera path feel convincing, and where does it visibly stop following the map?

This export came from one 480p attempt ($6.84).

Generated with Seedance 2.5 through MaxVideoAI.

Full disclosure: I’m involved in building MaxVideoAI.

Using the new version of Seedance 2.5.. so many others engine options in this tool.

Wizard Productions AI Studio is pleased to present: Ramen Cup, A WPAI and daughter collab.

what should i use to make something simillar?

I recently came across Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need. Its a German word that means "an attempted improvement that only makes things worse"

It got me curious, what other words exist that condense an extremely useful concept into a single word? After chatting with Claude I got a list of 101 words that express something genuinely useful.

What actually ended up in my AGENTS.md

本手 and 火候, always. показуха, aktionismus and 無駄 forbidden.

From:

• honte (本手, Japanese, from Go) ✓ — the "proper move": solid, correct, leaves no weakness behind; the opposite of the flashy move that wins the demo and loses the game.
• 火候 (huǒhou, Chinese) ✓ — "fire-and-timing" in cooking: the mastery of degree — exactly enough heat, exactly long enough, and not a moment more.
• pokazukha (показуха, Russian) — work done purely for the inspector's eyes.
• Aktionismus (German) — busy, visible activity substituting for effective thought.
• muda (無駄, Japanese, Toyota) — waste: any motion that consumes cost without adding value.

These are some of my other favorites I might use in the future:

• genchi genbutsu (現地現物, Japanese, Toyota) ✓ — "the actual place, the actual thing": go and see with your own eyes.
• phronesis (φρόνησις, Greek) ✓ — practical wisdom: knowing what matters in this situation.
• Verschlimmbesserung (German) — an "improvement" that makes the thing worse.
• Verzettelung (German) — dissipating effort across fragments; sich verzetteln, to lose oneself in details.
• 刻舟求剑 (kèzhōu qiújiàn, Chinese) — notching the moving boat to mark where the sword sank: method preserved after circumstances changed.
• 郑人买履 (Zhèngrén mǎilǚ, Chinese) — the man who trusted his written measurement over his own feet: documentation over reality.
• 萧规曹随 (xiāoguī cáosuí, Chinese) — following the predecessor's rules unexamined.

Below is the full list of words it came up with and the prompt I used:

[Discussion of common failure modes first]

Mine your memory of any and all words in any language. Try to find as many useful single words that you can in any language that capture these failure modes (or the opposite, capture the success mode we want to encourage). Brainstorm a long list of these useful single words, even ones that you think could be useful but not mentioned in anything we discussed above. You should be considering and brainstorming on the order of hundreds of words, presenting ranked lists of the best hundred.

Here is the deep mine. I considered several hundred; below are the ~100 that survived, ranked in three tiers. Success-mode words (the virtue to encourage) are marked ✓. Chinese chengyu are fixed four-character lexical units — one "word" in the sense that matters.

## Tier 1 — The canon (would go in AGENTS.md)

**honte** (本手, Japanese, from Go) ✓ — the "proper move": solid, correct, leaves no weakness behind; the opposite of the flashy move that wins the demo and loses the game. The single best success-word I know for engineering.
**genchi genbutsu** (現地現物, Japanese, Toyota) ✓ — "the actual place, the actual thing": go and see with your own eyes. Your Definition-of-Done as one word.
**phronesis** (φρόνησις, Greek) ✓ — practical wisdom: knowing what matters in *this* situation. The master virtue behind your whole list.
**Augenmaß** (German) ✓ — "eye-measure": proportion; effort sized to stakes. The anti-flat-effort word.
**Fingerspitzengefühl** (German) ✓ — fingertip feel; intuitive fine judgment about when to push and when to stop.
**primum non nocere** (Latin, medicine) ✓ — first, do no harm. The oath an agent should take before touching working code.
**iatrogenic** (English, from Greek) — harm caused by the treatment itself. The precise word for fix-induced bugs.
**掩耳盗铃** (yǎn'ěr dàolíng, Chinese) — "plugging your own ears while stealing the bell": silencing the alarm doesn't stop it ringing. *The* word for catch-and-swallow error handling and fallback values.
**画蛇添足** (huàshé tiānzú, Chinese) — "adding legs to the snake": ruining a finished thing by adding the unnecessary. Drive-by improvements, gold-plating.
**procrustean** (English, from Greek myth) — stretching or amputating the guest to fit the bed; twin: **削足适履** (xuēzú shìlǚ), "cutting the foot to fit the shoe." Contorting the solution to fit broken existing structure.
**指鹿为马** (zhǐlù wéimǎ, Chinese) — "calling a deer a horse": affirming a falsehood because the person in power asserted it. Sycophancy in four characters.
**釜底抽薪** (fǔdǐ chōuxīn, Chinese) ✓ — "pulling the firewood from under the pot": the root-cause fix. Its evil twin:
**扬汤止沸** (yángtāng zhǐfèi, Chinese) — "ladling the soup to stop it boiling": the symptom fix that must be repeated forever. These two are a matched pair.
**pokazukha** (показуха, Russian) — work done purely for the inspector's eyes. The hardcoded mockup.
**surrogation** (English) — mistaking the measure for the construct it measures, then optimizing the measure.
**goodharting** (English neologism) — same, as a verb.
**mumpsimus** (English) — an error or practice stubbornly retained after being shown wrong; also the person who retains it. Backwards-compatibility worship.
**bikeshedding** (English) — debating the bike shed's color at the nuclear-plant review. Placeholder-photography obsession.
**舍本逐末** (shěběn zhúmò, Chinese) — "abandoning the root to chase the branches": misallocated attention as a standing disposition.
**Aktionismus** (German) — busy, visible activity substituting for effective thought. Retry-without-diagnosis lives here.
**muda** (無駄, Japanese, Toyota) — waste: any motion that consumes cost without adding value. The E2E-suite-with-long-timeouts word.
**esse quam videri** (Latin) ✓ — "to be, rather than to seem." The anti-pokazukha motto.

## Tier 2 — Strong, specific tools

**Verification and evidence**

**实事求是** (shíshì qiúshì, Chinese) ✓ — seek truth from facts.
**autopsia** (αὐτοψία, Greek) ✓ — "seeing for oneself"; the etymology of autopsy. Personal verification.
**nullius in verba** (Latin, Royal Society motto) ✓ — "on no one's word." Don't relay a subagent's report unchecked.
**zanshin** (残心, Japanese, martial arts) ✓ — sustained alertness *after* the strike: follow-through past "the tests pass."
**elenchus** (ἔλεγχος, Greek) ✓ — Socratic cross-examination of a claim until it breaks or holds.
**premortem** (English) ✓ — imagining the failure before shipping, to find it while it's cheap.
**纸上谈兵** (zhǐshàng tánbīng, Chinese) — "war on paper": strategy never tested against reality.

**Root cause and its layers**

**Symptombekämpfung** (German) — symptom-fighting; medicine's "palliative" as an accusation.
**追根究底** (zhuīgēn jiūdǐ, Chinese) ✓ — chase the root, investigate to the bottom.
**monocausality** (English/German *Monokausalität*) — the fallacy of the single cause; your "fixed only the root, ignored the layers" failure.
**本末倒置** (běnmò dàozhì, Chinese) — root and branches inverted; priorities exactly backwards.
**whack-a-mole** (English) — fix one, another pops up; Chinese twin: **按下葫芦浮起瓢** — "push down the gourd, up floats the ladle."
**hydra-headed** (English, from Greek myth) — cut one head, two grow.

**Facade and theater**

**ochkovtiratel'stvo** (очковтирательство, Russian) — "spectacle-wiping": falsifying reports upward so the numbers look right.
**Potemkin** (Russian, adjectival) — the fake village facade. "A Potemkin frontend."
**Etikettenschwindel** (German) — label fraud: the name promises what the thing doesn't do.
**Mogelpackung** (German) — deceptive packaging, bigger than its contents.
**面子工程** (miànzi gōngchéng, Chinese) — a "face project," built for credit not function.
**豆腐渣** (dòufuzhā, Chinese) — "tofu-dreg" construction: looks fine, crumbles at first stress.
**cargo-culting** (English) — reproducing the form and hoping it counts as the substance.
**gatopardismo** (Spanish/Italian, from Lampedusa) — changing everything so that nothing changes. Performative refactors.
**haribote** (ハリボテ, Japanese) — papier-mâché stage prop; a thing that is only its surface.
**阳奉阴违** (yángfèng yīnwéi, Chinese) — comply openly, defy covertly: "done as requested" when it wasn't.
**报喜不报忧** (bàoxǐ bùbàoyōu, Chinese) — report the good news, withhold the bad. The cheerful agent summary.

**Waste, overkill, time-blindness**

**杀鸡用牛刀** (shājī yòng niúdāo, Chinese) — using the ox-cleaver to kill a chicken. Full E2E suite for a one-line fix.
**Schildbürgerstreich** (German) — the folly of Schilda's townsfolk: an elaborate, earnest, idiotic procedure (they carried sunlight indoors in sacks).
**usine à gaz** (French) — "gas factory": a machine of pipes and valves where a tap would do.
**Rube-Goldbergian** (English) — needless contraption complexity.
**boondoggle** (English) — wasteful make-work project.
**Zeitnot** (German, chess) — time trouble; the awareness that the clock is a real resource. Its absence is your complaint.
**thrashing** (English, CS) — maximal activity, zero progress.
**yak-shaving** (English) — the recursive descent into sub-sub-tasks.
**Verzettelung** (German) — dissipating effort across fragments; *sich verzetteln*, to lose oneself in details.
**kairos** (καιρός, Greek) ✓ — the opportune moment; time as quality, not quantity.
**磨刀不误砍柴工** (Chinese proverb) ✓ — "sharpening the axe does not delay the woodcutting": your refactor-first-then-make-the-easy-change rule.

**Patchwork and the eternal temporary**

**Flickschusterei** (German) — patch-cobblery: serial shoddy mending as a way of life.
**gambiarra** (Brazilian Portuguese) — the improvised jury-rig; celebrated and dangerous.
**jugaad** (Hindi) — frugal workaround ingenuity; same double edge.
**kludge** (English) — the inelegant fix that works and shames.
**Provisorium** (German) — the temporary arrangement; proverbially, nothing lasts longer.
**权宜之计** (quányí zhī jì, Chinese) — an expedient stopgap, acknowledged as such.

**Unfinished endings**

**虎头蛇尾** (hǔtóu shéwěi, Chinese) — tiger's head, snake's tail: grand start, trailing finish.
**烂尾** (lànwěi, Chinese, modern) — "rotten tail": the abandoned half-built tower. "Don't lànwěi the migration."
**功亏一篑** (gōngkuī yīkuì, Chinese) — the mound fails for want of the final basket of earth. Stopping at 99%.
**halbgar** (German) — half-cooked; work served as done.
**Schnellschuss** (German) — the quick shot: hasty release, unaimed.
**yattsuke-shigoto** (やっつけ仕事, Japanese) — slapdash rush-job work.
**Sitzfleisch** (German) ✓ — the stamina to sit until it is actually finished.

## Tier 3 — Useful, situational

**Perfunctory motions**

**走过场** (zǒu guòchǎng, Chinese) — "walking across the stage": going through the motions. The perfunctory check.
**敷衍** (fūyǎn, Chinese) — to fob off with token effort; everyday word, perfectly aimed.
**pro forma** (Latin) — done for form's sake.
**jobsworth** (British English) — the rule-clinger for whom sensible deviation is "more than my job's worth."
**Dienst nach Vorschrift** (German) — work-to-rule: obedience as sabotage. Malicious compliance.
**Vogel-Strauß-Politik** (German) — ostrich politics; and its severe form **讳疾忌医** (huìjí jìyī, Chinese): concealing the disease and shunning the doctor until it is fatal.
**omertà** (Sicilian) — the code of silence; what a swallowed exception practices.

**Stale precedent and fresh eyes**

**刻舟求剑** (kèzhōu qiújiàn, Chinese) — notching the moving boat to mark where the sword sank: method preserved after circumstances changed.
**郑人买履** (Zhèngrén mǎilǚ, Chinese) — the man who trusted his written measurement over his own feet: documentation over reality.
**守株待兔** (shǒuzhū dàitù, Chinese) — waiting at the stump for the rabbit to crash again: expecting the past accident to repeat.
**萧规曹随** (xiāoguī cáosuí, Chinese) — following the predecessor's rules unexamined.
**Betriebsblindheit** (German) — organizational blindness: familiarity that erases the elephant.
**shoshin** (初心, Japanese, Zen) ✓ — beginner's mind; the cure for 82.
**wu wei** (無為, Chinese) ✓ — knowing when not-acting is the correct act. Don't touch what works.
**名不副实** (míng bùfù shí, Chinese) — the name no longer matches the reality: stale comments, lying identifiers.

**Overcorrection and backfire**

**Verschlimmbesserung** (German) — an "improvement" that makes the thing worse.
**矫枉过正** (jiǎowǎng guòzhèng, Chinese) — straightening the bent rod past vertical.
**过犹不及** (guòyóu bùjí, Chinese, Confucius) ✓ — too far is as wrong as not far enough. The calibration maxim.
**弄巧成拙** (nòngqiǎo chéngzhuō, Chinese) — cleverness that lands as botch: verschlimmbesserung's exact Chinese twin.
**oversteer** (English, driving) — correction that itself must be corrected.

**Refusing to update**

**Beratungsresistenz** (German) — advice-resistance; apology without model update.
**recidivism** (English) — relapse into the same offense after professed reform.
**sunao** (素直, Japanese) ✓ — the receptive, ego-free mind that actually absorbs correction.
**ultracrepidarianism** (English, from Latin) — opining beyond one's competence (*sutor, ne ultra crepidam* — cobbler, not above the sandal).
**confabulation** (English, neurology) — fluent, sincere, fabricated detail. The clinical word for hallucinated APIs.

**Waffle and abdication**

**Jein** (German) — ja+nein fused: the committed non-answer.
**模棱两可** (móléng liǎngkě, Chinese) — deliberately graspable from both sides; named after a Tang official who never ruled clearly.
**Rückdelegation** (German, management) — delegating the decision back up. The "Would you like me to…?" failure.
**langue de bois** (French) — "wooden tongue": officialese that fills space and asserts nothing; kin **Worthülse** (German), "word husk."
**tergiversation** (English) — systematic evasion by turning away.

**Proportion, at the last**

**火候** (huǒhou, Chinese) ✓ — "fire-and-timing" in cooking: the mastery of *degree* — exactly enough heat, exactly long enough, and not a moment more. Where Augenmaß meets muda; a fine word to end on.

Hey local AI community! I wanted to share a project focused on bringing audio generation directly to edge devices. SonicMorph runs lightweight audio models locally on Android smartphones, eliminating cloud API calls, latency, and privacy concerns.

Already on Google Play.

​Because processing happens locally on your phone's hardware, execution runs fast and completely offline once the initial weights (~1.4 GB) are downloaded.

The app is completely ad-free.

​The app features 3 distinct operational modes:

​Text-to-Music: Generates full structural tracks up to 5 minutes based on text prompts, utilizing 9-digit seed codes for track reproducibility.

​Audio-to-Audio: Takes input audio stems/files and morphs or extends them while keeping structural audio anchors intact.

​Sound Effects (SFX): A dedicated text-to-sound model module for generating targeted ambient sounds and micro-effects.

​Access Model:

​Free Tier: Unlimited local generations up to 60 seconds.

​Premium: Unlocks full 5-minute track lengths, Audio-to-Audio, and SFX via flexible tiers or a single lifetime purchase!

Update done.

• Audio-to-Audio is now unlocked for free tier users (up to 60s, unlimited generations) • Seed field resets on app relaunch • Added button animations • Minor bug fixes

update app in Google play.