Prompt Mortem Independent AI Failure Journal

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Catalog: 8 published cases

USD 0.50 Case #008 mixed Starlight Precise: Upscaling to 1080p A Topaz Starlight Precise upscale of a ten-second vertical clip. The output is 1080 × 1920 and cost approximately $0.50. Starlight Precise 2.6 10.031s Inspect specimen →

USD 0.93 Case #007 failure Seedance 2.0: The Anti-Striptease Kai had five seconds to sweep his hair back and wink. I gave Seedance a last frame with the clothes in a different position, and they looked like they grew back. Seedance 2.0 5.042s Inspect specimen →

USD 41.65 Case #006 mixed Same Callum, Different Seedance Twenty ArtCraft takes put seven Seedance variants through Callum Ward’s library scene. Six groups share prompts and references, and two additional takes show how the setup changed. Seedance 2.0 Plus 10.042s Inspect specimen →

Case #005 failure Seedance 2.0: Two Strangers in Their Suits Seedance animates a rainy London walk, but when the two men’s faces come into view, neither looks like the character in the reference. Seedance 2.0 4.042s Inspect specimen →

USD 0.74 Case #004 mixed SPEEDING: Fast & Furious, Thames Division Seedance 2.0 turns a quiet London establishing shot into a race between cars and boats. I’m still not sure who wins. Seedance 2.0 4.042s Inspect specimen →

USD 1.88 Case #003 mixed Wan 3.0 Prime: I cry if I want to! It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to Cry if I want to, cry if I want to You would cry too if it happened to you! Wan 3.0 Prime Video Inspect specimen →

USD 0.92 Case #002 failure Grok Imagine: Wrong Man, Right Jacket, Unscheduled Exorcism A ten-second character entrance became an unsolicited ghost story. Grok copied Callum’s jacket and accessories while losing his facial identity, then interpreted a slow camera push-in as a second, floating incarnation of the wrong man. Promising mansion. Unexpected haunting. Grok Imagine 10s Inspect specimen →

USD 5.10 Case #001 mixed FLUX 3 Video: The Joker, a Human Ceiling Fan, and The Shining. Three 15-second tests examining facial identity, complex choreography and environmental animation. The results ranged from catastrophic identity drift to mechanical movement and underwhelming atmosphere. Flux .3 Video Video Inspect specimen →