How AIcineverse checks that a film was made with AI

A catalogue of AI films is only useful if you can trust what a listing says. This is how a film gets in, and what we do when a fact is missing.

1. The original upload

A listing links to where the makers published the film: their own channel, or an official publisher's. When the publisher is not the maker, the listing says so. air head by shy kids, for example, sits on OpenAI's channel, and Sunspring on Ars Technica's. Each is shown as “Published by” that channel.

Re-uploads by third parties are not listed.

2. A statement about the AI involvement

We need someone accountable to have said how AI was used. That is usually the maker, in the title, description or credits. Sometimes it is a named report.

• The title of Last Stand by Hashem Al-Ghaili calls it a “Sci-Fi Short Film Made with Artificial Intelligence”.
• For ANCESTRA, Google's behind-the-scenes account describes live-action scenes combined with imagery generated with Veo.
• For The Frost, MIT Technology Review reported that every shot of Part 1 was generated with DALL·E 2 and animated with D-ID.

Each listing shows this as a short note, with a link to the source where there is one.

3. Facts from the host, not from memory

Titles, channel names and running times come from the host's own data. AI tools are listed only when the creator or a cited source names them.

What we leave blank

When a fact can't be confirmed, the field stays empty. A film can show “Running time: Not known” or “Spoken language: Not specified”. An empty field is more useful than a wrong one, and it is easy to fill later.

One film, one listing

The same film on two platforms is one listing with two links. KITSUNE is on both Vimeo and YouTube, and its page offers both. Trailers are listed separately from the films they advertise, as with Where the Robots Grow and its trailer.

Editorial additions and submissions

Listings added by our editors are marked “Editorial addition”. Their makers did not submit them and have not endorsed this site.

Anyone can submit a film by pasting its link. A moderator reviews every submission before it is published, using the same checks as above.

When we get it wrong

Every film page has a “Report this listing” form. If you made a film that is listed here and want it corrected or removed, use that form and say so.

More detail, including how ratings and sorting work, is on the About page.