storytelling

This paper introduces WSE-bench, a process benchmark for evaluating LLMs in open-ended world simulations, separately assessing sustained generation, canonical coherence, and meaningful development.

AI video technology is evolving from generating clips to enabling full scene direction, which could reduce the cost of consistency in film production and empower small teams to create complete productions.

The article discusses how CapCut PC's workflow with Seedance 2.5 allows users to create AI-generated shots and develop stories beyond just the generated frames, emphasizing the value of integrated editing tools.

Seedance 2.5 is highlighted for AI video generation, allowing precise placement of actions, reveals, and transitions via timestamp instructions to support story-driven scenes.

Introduces a hand-drawn style video generation skill: story-to-handdrawn-video, suitable for children's bedtime stories, ancient poetry, science, and other scenarios. It supports automatic sentence-splitting and storyboarding from text, or sequential image uploads, and outputs a 3:4 vertical video track with 20 built-in hand-drawn styles.

Researchers at Villanova University found that readers often rate AI-generated stories higher in quality and engagement when they believe the stories were written by humans, highlighting outdated assumptions about AI's creative capabilities.

Wrinkles is a new AI-powered audio tour guide app that surfaces hidden stories and local history based on your location, available on iOS and Android.

The article explores how anti-vaccine groups use emotionally compelling storytelling to spread vaccine skepticism, and why fact-based public health messaging has limited success in countering such narratives.

Forgeon is a platform for creating, publishing, and experiencing interactive stories. It is featured on Product Hunt.

Anthropic master shared a prompt technique: let the AI first hide high-level concepts in a fable, then reveal and explain the metaphor to aid memory and understanding. This method leverages the human brain's preference for stories and images, making it easier to remember than directly giving definitions.

Sequoia founder Don Valentine and a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz share insights on the critical importance of storytelling for startup founders, arguing that a compelling story is essential for strategy, fundraising, and motivating teams.

A tweet analyzing how Garry Tan's gstack repo serves as a masterclass in storytelling, as taught by Y Combinator.

AI is becoming essential for scaling content production while maintaining quality; responsible adoption, provenance, and human judgment are key to leveraging AI effectively in creative workflows.

Equinox-31B is a fine-tuned AI model on top of Gemma 4 31B Instruct that balances dark adventure and slice-of-life storytelling, designed for interactive fiction and role-playing games like AI Dungeon.

Google DeepMind announces Gemini Omni, a new AI model for building stories.

A storytelling tool aimed at helping parents raise bilingual children by creating and sharing stories in multiple languages.

Darren Aronofsky told the Cannes AI Summit that AI technology liberates directors, making storytelling easier, citing Orson Welles as an example.

Peter Thiel explains that he looks for entrepreneurs with a powerful narrative to attract top talent and build great companies, emphasizing that a compelling story is often enough to secure investment.

A detailed tutorial introducing four methods for maintaining character consistency and plot coherence when creating AI short dramas using Seedance 2.0 and GPT-image2, including extending reference videos, using keyframes as the first frame, compositing multiple video segments, and converting storyboards to video.

A detailed SOP guide for writing erotic fiction, covering safety boundaries, genre classification, character setup, relationship tension, scene atmosphere, plot structure, and dialogue corpus, with mention of using AI models like Grok and Gemini for assisted creation.