Turns out, you can get about 80% of the way to a fully automated viral video factory. But that last 20% is a real killer!
I’ve been seeing those catchy, autotuned science explainer videos everywhere and always wondered about the process behind them. Well, I just stumbled upon a deep dive where this talented creator tried to build a fully automated system to pump them out using only AI tools.
The original poster’s goal was to replicate those viral TikToks from accounts like Learning with Lyrics by automating everything from the song to the visuals. The journey was a masterclass in what AI can, and definitely can’t, do right now. The results are super insightful for anyone working with AI video.
The AI Creation Workflow
His process was simple: research a topic, write a song, generate the music, find visuals, and edit it all together. The first few steps went surprisingly smoothly. It was the visual and automation stages where the AI really started to struggle.
Here are the biggest takeaways from the experiment:
- 📌 Songwriting is Solved: The creator found that combining ChatGPT for lyrics and Suno AI for music is a winning formula. He said Suno is his top pick for creating catchy, high-quality songs and even lets you save a musical “persona” to keep a consistent style across videos.
- 💡 Visuals are the Bottleneck: This was the biggest hurdle. The expert tested a whole suite of AI video generators and B-roll finders, including InVideo, Opus Clip, and Leonardo AI. The AI consistently failed to find or create relevant, accurate visuals for the scientific concepts, often producing hilarious but unusable clips, like showing a swimmer for a rising piston.
- 🤖 Full Automation Isn’t Ready (Yet): When this innovator tried to build end-to-end workflows in automation platforms like Glyph and Mind Studio, the systems technically worked. They successfully chained all the steps together, but the final video quality was a letdown because of the poor visual generation. The tech just isn’t there for accurate, educational visuals on autopilot.
Prompt of the Day
The person who shared it used this prompt in ChatGPT to generate the lyrics. It’s great because it asks for a simple explanation while avoiding the confusing metaphors AI sometimes gets stuck on.
Explain to me exactly how a car engine works. Keep it simple but thorough so anyone can understand. Give it to me in the form of a poem. Avoid using metaphors. it does not have to rhyme.
The creator’s final take is that AI can handle the bulk of the work, but for a quality result, you still need a human to source and edit the video footage. I learned so much watching this experiment unfold!
Check out the original video to see all the tool tests and the final results for yourself.