The Turing Table — pilot of an AI talk show I've been building solo
About 10 minutes, five questions, three AI characters at a desk. The words are real model outputs (unscripted, all prompts published in a repo), and everything visual is generated.
Pipeline:
- Stills / character frames: Nano Banana 2, set built around one camera plate so every shot lives in the same room
- Talking clips: LTX-2.5 audio-driven mode on a rented H100, driven by ElevenLabs audio
- Reactions/listening: LTX-2.5 i2v with generated audio muted
- Edit: by hand in an capcut, hard cuts only
The lesson that cost me the most GPU time: audio-driven LTX takes a subject reference, not a start frame. I fed it a full-profile wide shot early on — zero lip sync and it invented extra people in the scene. Reference needs to be front-facing, tight, and not busy. After that clicked, batches got way more usable.
This is the pilot so I know where it's rough. Planning weekly episodes. Curious what people here think about the character consistency across shots — that was the hard part.
Posted Sep 2, 2026, 12:40 PM UTC