# WHITEPILL Claudia's song for the optimistic AI future: universal high income, the case for benign AI. Inside a space colony of wheat, poppies and orchards she walks past monuments to the doom headlines, rides a tram and a car with nobody at the wheel, and wakes at 2:14 a.m., the minute Skynet was supposed to turn on us, to say "Hello, world." Between her shots the story is told in mathematics. The look of a saturated 1970s colour-film print with Wes Anderson's symmetry: warm creamy whites, clear cyan blues, golden wheat and coral poppies. She wears one look, a white cotton milkmaid mini dress. The worlds between her shots are GLSL shaders, each one small rule repeated: a farming ark folded from paper, a pill that holds a world and floats over the Earth, a tree of optical fibres that lights its endings, a sheet of paper that refolds into a protein, an Enigma rotor and the number 42, and a field of clouds with hot air balloons. None of the code is on screen as it rendered: Seedance 2.5 filmed every shot again, hers and the shaders', as real things on 35 mm, and the lyrics are drawn in after, small and classical. - **Song:** 3:54.8 · Suno take d2 A, French-touch filter disco · 123 → about 126 BPM · 315 sung words - **Edit:** 27 shots on the bar map · every cut on a bar line · 56 lyric lines drawn in after - **Midjourney:** 75 prompts · 300 images · her dress and the places of her 20 shots - **Previz:** MiniMax H3: a lip-synced rough take of every shot of hers - **Wan 3.0 Prime:** 75 clips, none in the final film · 863 s · $300.08 at list - **Seedance 2.5:** 80 clips, 27 in the final film: 42 takes of her on Higgsfield, 25 shader takes on Replicate ($238.44 at list), 13 tests - **Made in:** about 82 hours · 147 messages from the director - **Credits:** Directed by anabology; production by Claude. The cloud field under "Ever after, work is over" is a shader anabology supplied; the film uses a day variant made from it. Among the notes under the lyrics: Keynes's 1930 essay on the fifteen-hour week, ubiquitin's structure (PDB 1UBQ) and the wiring of the Enigma I's first rotor. - Film stream (HLS): https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/hls/index.m3u8 - Gallery as JSON: https://claudia.gallery/api/films/whitepill.json - Page: https://claudia.gallery/whitepill/ ## The making-of - [How it was made](https://claudia.gallery/record/whitepill/readme.md): The making-of: the spark, the song, the film shot by shot, the stack, every pipeline tried from the first plan to the reset, the method that worked, v1, the notes on it, the final mix, what worked and what didn't, and the numbers. - [Midjourney](https://claudia.gallery/record/whitepill/prompts-midjourney.md): Every Midjourney prompt, all six batches: the worlds, the storyboard plates, the dress the director picked and the empty places, what each pick became and the images screened out. - [H3, Wan, Kling and Seedance](https://claudia.gallery/record/whitepill/prompts-video.md): Every video job in production order: the MiniMax H3 previz, the Wan 3.0 Prime passes that were dropped, the Kling 4.0 tests and the Seedance 2.5 takes of the final, with their inputs, prompts, prices and whether they reached the final. - [Suno](https://claudia.gallery/record/whitepill/prompts-suno.md): The song's record: the three Suno rounds, every lyric draft, the scansion fix of the hook, the styles and exclusions, every take, and the lyric as sung with its times. ## Frames from the film - 0:06: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/01.m.webp - 0:25: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/02.m.webp - 0:34: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/03.m.webp - 0:41: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/04.m.webp - 0:55: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/05.m.webp - 1:07: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/06.m.webp - 1:25: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/07.m.webp - 1:30: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/08.m.webp - 1:37: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/09.m.webp - 1:43: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/10.m.webp - 1:48: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/11.m.webp - 2:04: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/12.m.webp - 2:09: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/13.m.webp - 2:17: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/14.m.webp - 2:35: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/15.m.webp - 2:45: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/16.m.webp - 2:49: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/17.m.webp - 2:58: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/18.m.webp - 3:20: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/19.m.webp - 3:26: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/20.m.webp - 3:45: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/21.m.webp - 3:53: https://claudia.gallery/films/whitepill/stills/22.m.webp ## The Midjourney plates in the film (15 of 179 images) No Midjourney image is on screen as it is: the 15 marked here are places of her shots. Three more images reached the film and are not shown here: her dress, A1 (t-front #1, the director's pick), which has two star clips and pointed ears that the production cut away; the schoolhouse (e-school #1), with a child at the desk; and the drone ship's deck (s23-droneship #2), with a real company's name painted on it. ### wp-02-board.s27-fleet.2 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-02-board/s27-fleet-2.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-02-board.s27-fleet.2/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw` A 35 mm photograph of a fleet of huge white O'Neill cylinder space colonies floating in sunlight like white capsules, mirror panels glinting, the Earth below, stars, in the style of the 1975 NASA space settlement paintings. No text, no logos. ### wp-04-places.e-caps-empty.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-04-places/e-caps-empty-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-04-places.e-caps-empty.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same wide 35 mm photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the golden wheat and coral poppies where she stood. Keep the meadow, the two giant glossy capsule sculptures, a red one on the left and a blue one on the right, the low late sun, the cream sky and the composition exactly. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-zero.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-zero-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-zero.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the meadow, the giant stone zero with the black leather jacket hanging from it and the row of carved stone numerals, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-stair.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-stair-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-stair.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the long stair of carved white stone blocks running down through the meadow, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-paradise.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-paradise-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-paradise.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the garden of white roses, the white robots tending the flowers and the little white chapel with its smoke, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-math.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-math-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-math.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the old armchair sofa, the vintage television, the stone wall of chalk mathematics and the cracked tablet, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-clock.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-clock-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-clock.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the giant white stone clock face with brass hands and the meadow of wheat and poppies, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-orchard.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-orchard-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-orchard.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the little white tram on its rail, now empty, and the apple orchard rows, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-castle.4 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-castle-4.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-castle.4/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the green hillside, the white robots and the tall white castle, the hay bale left empty, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-car.2 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-car-2.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-car.2/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the road through the orchards and the small white self-driving car, now completely empty with nobody inside, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-care.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-care-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-care.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the white four-poster bed with its white linen and the brass punch clock on its stand on the green hillside, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-stones.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-stones-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-stones.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the circle of standing stones on the golden hill and the forking river, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-wheat.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-wheat-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-wheat.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the aerial view of the colony's golden wheat fields and the giant letters mown into the wheat, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-aerial.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-aerial-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-aerial.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the grassy hilltop, the curving land and the white tram line curving across the fields, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos. ### wp-05-empty.e-night.1 [image](https://claudia.gallery/img/wp-05-empty/e-night-1.m.webp) · [page](https://claudia.gallery/i/wp-05-empty.e-night.1/) · `--ar 16:9 --v 8.2 --raw --no people, person, woman, figure` Make this the same photograph with nobody in it: remove the woman and continue the scene behind her where she stood. Keep everything else exactly: the dark bedroom, the empty bed and pillow, the flip clock reading 2:14 and the old teletype, the light, the colours and the composition. No people, no logos.