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The paper introduces COMIC, an AI system for generating short, comedic videos by simulating a production studio with a population of agents that compete and improve iteratively. A key component is the use of LLM critics, trained on a corpus of YouTube comedy videos, to automatically evaluate the humor of generated content. Experiments demonstrate that COMIC can produce sketches approaching the quality of professional productions and achieves state-of-the-art video generation performance.
AI can now (almost) write and direct Saturday Night Live.
We propose a fully automated AI system that produces short comedic videos similar to sketch shows such as Saturday Night Live. Starting with character references, the system employs a population of agents loosely based on real production studio roles, structured to optimize the quality and diversity of ideas and outputs through iterative competition, evaluation, and improvement. A key contribution is the introduction of LLM critics aligned with real viewer preferences through the analysis of a corpus of comedy videos on YouTube to automatically evaluate humor. Our experiments show that our framework produces results approaching the quality of professionally produced sketches while demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in video generation.
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