Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol: The $100 AI Music Video Showdown
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We built an autonomous harness to let Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol create full music videos for Bruno Mars' 'Uptown Funk' with strict budgets. By logging every tool call, we watched them research models, generate clips, and edit with ffmpeg. While both models produced valid videos, they struggled with story consistency and tempo matching, revealing significant gaps in current frontier AI capabilities despite their impressive tool usage.
The models take lyrics very literally, so 'Make a dragon wanna retire, man' gets you an actual dragon on screen, which is interesting for a few shots but gets weird after a while.
- hbn
Like most of this stuff, it's obviously impressive technology compared to what existed a few years ago. But the end product has zero artistic value. It's a grey goo of the average of every concept picked up from the concept of the song.
A talented creative with a vision could make something more interesting and enjoyable in an afternoon with a $0 budget.
- maerF0x0
Unsure if it's just the way they prompted it / coded it, but the output is far too much a literal direct copy of the lyrics. The best music videos have a story arc on the theme of but often not litearlly the lyrics, and start with obscurity and reveal something (following all the literary/story mechanisms)
Consider Amber Run - Found lyrics versus the video, and the story arc of the video
- qbit42
AI is destroying the economics which allowed for a sizable middle class of artists. The issue is that many are paid for their art mostly for its aesthetic rather than artistic value. This isn’t the most creatively fulfilling, but it previously allowed many artists to make a living while refining their skills, often enabling them to pursue their real creative ambitions on the side.
- saaaaaam
These are awful. It’s like Suno music. Seems convincing if you half listen. As soon as you pay attention you notice all the cracks.
- michelb
Interesting how bad this is when you don't use video models and your own direction.
The first two clips are made with Kling (not affiliated, but I use it myself):
https://xcancel.com/PJaccetturo/status/2076312902685085815#m
Obviously not one-shot, and finalised in a video editor. It's quite doable to get this kind of fidelity.
- nzoschke
> None of the music videos were great
Glad they acknowledge this.
Curious how much time in addition to tokens this costs. If you have to spend $25 and wait 45 minutes to get a basically unwatchable video, I'm not worried about indie film makers being replaced just yet...
- adverbly
When the line was "don't believe me just watch"
And then the clip was literally just an arm wearing a watch!
That's freaking hilarious!
It's like someone playing charades
- willmeyers
It's an interesting experiment and the results are surprising. I will say that if you're a musician I'd bet anything you can make a way cooler and better music video for $25 and 45 minutes with your friends.
- anon7000
Tangent: philosophically to me, art is inherently human. What makes art meaningful and impactful isn’t whether it looks good or cool. It’s the story of the artist, the context of the art itself, the hard work and struggle involved, the meaning represented by a human creating something very specific to their own personal context and taste. Or a mix of any of that.
Can AI be used as a tool to help create art? Absolutely. But as a rule, I do not give any shits about AI generated content like this. It’s not art. It’s not human. And the line is really how much meaning and effort _a human_ is putting into it.
If a human spends a minute or two prompting AI and then tweaking The result, and peddling it as their own art… get outta here. You made some content. That’s easy, and no one should cares. Content can already be shoveled out faster than we can watch it with or without AI.
Meaningful art is not mass-produced, generated content.
I realize art is completely subjective, so some person may find meaning in AI generated art. That’s fine, and that’s part of what could make that art. (Like an original way of presenting something that really resonates with someone.)
But this garbage ain’t that.
And I realize this is just a capability test, but plenty of places will see this as cheap and good enough. But it ain’t art, and we should push back against another cost-cutting measure that does nothing to make the world better.
- Scubabear68
It is jarring to me that most of the dancing seems slightly out of sync with the music. It is like a music video uncanny valley - images look good, but the lack of sync to the sound shatters the illusion entirely.