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Best Ai Video Generators – Fall 2026

Carleton Torpin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:27:59 +0000

Let’s review the best AI video generators available as of Fall 2026, on the AI service Poe. Jump to a Section The premise 20 examples Costs to render Winning models Try yourself All bots list Clip gallery Fun to notice × Back to top ↑ Jump to a model Click here to start the video, …

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What is Pydantic and Why Is It Broken in Poe? UPDATE: Fixed

Carleton Torpin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:03:40 +0000

UPDATE: As of May 5th, 2026, the issue with Pydantic & Poe’s Script-Bot Creator has been resolved. Short answer: Pydantic is a Python data validation library that Poe’s Script-Bot Creator uses under the hood to validate its outputs. When people ask “what is Pydantic” in the context of Script-Bot Creator, they usually mean it because …

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Decarboxylation Guide

Carleton Torpin — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:39:12 +0000

Decarboxylation uses heat in order to convert tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCa)[1] into tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). THCa is the inactive compound in raw cannabis, and it must be heated in order to convert the THCa into THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). THC is the active compound in cannabis that your body can actually use. Decarboxylation is useful because it can allow …

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Ai-Generated Digital Negatives for Cyanotypes

Carleton Torpin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:16:03 +0000

This article was generated entirely by an LLM called Script-Bot Creator. For a comprehensive breakdown of how this was made, you can view the full conversation thread here. Have fun reading, and know that everything below was created by Carleton Torpin… plus a ton of AI models working together. Ai-generated digital negatives can bridge modern …

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Stop Motion Movies: A Lifelong Fascination

Carleton Torpin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:05:43 +0000

Stop motion movies have a unique charm that has fascinated me since childhood. There is something magical about taking inanimate objects and giving them life, one tiny movement at a time. It is an art form that requires patience, but the results are always incredibly rewarding. Making Stop Motion Movies in 1993 My own journey …

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Linchpin Book Is A TED Talk You Can Read

Carleton Torpin — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:08:04 +0000

In January 2010, Seth Godin published Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Linchpin wasn’t a business book in the traditional sense. It didn’t contain things like case studies of legacy businesses like General Electric, nor any ‘five-step plans for quarterly growth’ types of articles. Instead, the Linchpin book was a manifesto about the end of the industrial …

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Best TED Talks, Fact-Checked

Carleton Torpin — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:00:11 +0000

The best TED Talks generally receive +10 million views, but are popular TED talks factual? In this article, we’re looking at the 15 most-viewed TED Talks, and we’re determining how ‘factual’ each Talk-er is. Here’s a link to a table of data that shows each claim made in these 15 best TED Talks, and …

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Ai Video Generation Models Compared

Carleton Torpin — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:50:10 +0000

In March 2025, I wrote an article on the best AI image generators, and now in January of 2026, I’m making this updated version, with 10 different Ai video generation models compared. For this ai video comparison test, I used 10 different AI video generation models and have each of them output the exact same …

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How Does Deepseek’s Privacy Policy Compare To Other Ai Companies

Carleton Torpin — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:32:31 +0000

Updated January 27, 2026: Added Microsoft Copilot privacy analysis. This article is going to explore how DeepSeek’s privacy policy compares to the other ai companies’ privacy policies. Companies who offer large-language models (like Open Ai, Claude, Google) all publish a privacy policy. Privacy policies are boring, but they’re important because they state how your data …

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Ai Audio Generators on Poe

Carleton Torpin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:23:16 +0000

Ai audio generators on Poe Ai let you input text, and get spoken-word audio output. This article encompasses the state of ai audio generators on Poe by comparing the five major Text-To-Speech (TTS) voice models on Poe. We’ll load up several unique voices from every ai audio generator, and we’ll have each ai voice read …

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