Marie Horsepower: The western babe in the AI bro dude ranch
AI messaging has been driven by bros. Alongside NFT, crypto, AI is Mary Kay for bros.
Their chat to movie studios has been full of arrogance and subtle takeover threats as they fail to deliver what creatives, editors, directors really need.
In my AI adventures, I have not played a hentai starlet or a sexed up sci-fi heroine from an imaginary Star Wars' cutting room floor of NC-17 nerd fantasies. I have played a failed roller derby star, a burnt out actress, and a lost woman in a western.
But above all, I have architected and built my own streaming platform. A streaming platform for independent filmmakers. For filmmakers that are original, daring, and feel lost in the sea of likes, subscribes, social media dependence. Those lost in the screen refresh.
It is built for filmmakers that want to charge what they want for their art. Not bound by platform fees and minimal payback due to the dilution of plays. You own your video aisle in Fabricated Crime.
And with that…our last technical write up. Code should be invisible, tech should be invisible.
Fabricated Crime: The Platform
Fabricated Crime is a dual purpose firm. On one side it is a production outfit for film concepts, storyboarding, and design. The second fold of that page is a full-blown 4k+ streaming platform.
A platform I led the design of, architecture, and significant low level implementation. It is based on knowledge acquired working in the media distribution supply chain.
The diagram above shows the major areas of the technology stack that allows a filmmaker or studio upload content and get it processed for distribution and create their own video rental aisle. I will break them down as follows, from left to right:
Filmmaker or independent studio uploads their final product and creates their microsite with Stripe/PayPal payment gateways on Fab Crime page.
Upon uploads' completions, the file gets picked up by Panastream, our own media conversion elastic framework that scales up or down as needed. Panastream will trigger automated jobs for stream-ready content at a minimum of 4k.
While Fabricated Crime will never censor a filmmaker, the content gets processed by Lolita. Lolita is our AI/Computer Vision content moderation and protection layer for legal purposes.
If content passes Lolita, it goes to distribution storage mapped to CDN for streaming-ready link and shows up automatically on the filmmaker's aisle.
Empanamedia, our graphical assets store, extracts all stills of content and makes them searchable by AI chat, example: "Find me where people are sitting on a beach". Now the filmmaker gets all images that match and can be distributed or shared.
Your Crimebuster Aisle
With your content in place, you can now use your microsite: https://fabricatedcrime.com/filmmaker-name and distribute and collect money for your content. Furthermore, you can also sell physical media or have multiple versions of your content, such as With Director's Commentary.
Platform is also capable of livestream. In case you want to connect directly with your audience or broadcast a live event.
For those tech-oriented, a couple of more details. The platform is serverless and currently relies on DigitalOcean and AWS for redundancy.
Platform is currently by invitation only. Express your interest in participating on Fabricated Crime dropping a line here on Substack or by visiting our website: Fabricated Crime.