In 2030, which of the following prompts will an AI be able to accurately follow to generate a high-quality movie?
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a prompt >100,000 words
58%
The prompt is an entire book
55%
a prompt which is >10,000 words
53%
The prompt is the full text of 'There is no Antimemetics Division' by qntm
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make me a movie about a character who travels backward in time to try to prevent his own conception
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Make me a very good movie
50%
A movie with an all-Asian cast
50%
A movie with an all-black cast
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A movie with an all-White cast
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Make me a movie about a wooden icosahedron
48%
make me a movie about a character who travels forward in time to try to prevent his own conception
47%
make me a 120 minute Star Trek / Star Wars crossover
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Make me a biopic of @mira's life

You can add your own prompts. The AI must be publicly accessible and reasonably affordable. Roughly, less than $100 per movie.

This question was inspired by Scott Alexander's question: In 2028, will an AI be able to generate a full high-quality movie to a prompt?

It is possible that an AI will be able to generate full high-quality movies to some prompts but not others. My market is about which prompts it will be able to successfully follow and which it won't be able to.

P.S. to avoid any conflict of interest in resolving this market, I won't be making any predictions on it.

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Someone made a similar market about what prompts OpenAI's Sora will be able to accurately follow: https://manifold.markets/TheOtherKC/on-release-which-of-these-prompts-w?r=Y2FsZGVya25pZ2h0

The cover image is great. I can't wait for 2030 to watch "Icosahedron: the movie".

How does this resolve if the prompt goes through stages of auto improving the prompt? Like with DALLE 3 for example, I can give it any prompt and ChatGPT makes my prompt better and more detailed before sending it to DALLE. In this case, basically any prompt no matter the length should work, if it works at all.

@dominic I'll say no

edit: see below, answer is perhaps closer to yes than no

@calderknight wait, no? Any system that can write a whole movie script is obviously "auto improving the prompt" under the hood. So are you saying it won't count if it shows you an intermediate stage in the process?

@ErickBall this question is about which prompts the AI can successfully follow, not about which prompts the AI can successfully follow an auto-improved version of.

@calderknight So, say someone makes an ai movie generation service, and you can put in any prompt, and then it uses a language model internal to write a script from the prompt, and then it generates video and audio for everything described in the script. Would that count? Would it count if it also lets you look at the script before it does the rest?

@ErickBall Thanks for the questions. If the AI takes the prompt, writes a script, then uses that script to make the movie, that is OK.

If it presents a list of generated scripts from which I am to pick a script, I will pick one at random. If the resultant movie accurately fulfills the prompt, the answer will resolve YES.

make me a 120 minute Star Trek / Star Wars crossover

Decent enough chances imo that we end up with this being filtered out by a copyright filter.

Does a single model have to do every prompt? Or can there be multiple models that do different sets of prompts? How will you decide which model to use? Or will you test every prompt on every movie-model?

@Mira I think I would choose whichever model I thought was most appropriate for the prompt. For example, if the prompt is an entire book I would choose the model best-suited for the task (for example, an AI built to do exactly that, or one that was supposed to be capable of it). I wouldn't necessarily test every prompt on every movie-model, but I might test every prompt on every one of several AIs. For example, if there were n SOTA movie-generating AIs, and it were affordable, I don't see any reason not to try them all (until one succeeded).

Will you be paying the $100 USD for each answer here to test each movie generation to resolve this market?

@Mira True, I think there's a cap of 100 answers, and older-James might not appreciate me putting him on the hook for $10,000. I'll change the wording in the description to "roughly 50 USD" and I'll commit to spending up to $5,000 if necessary.

But the resolution of some answers should be clear without actually running the prompt. For example, answers about prompts of length <100k words could resolve YES if the answer about a prompt of length 100k words resolved YES.

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