Using Generative AI to Simulate a Fictional Emu Invasion of Australia

31/12/24 by Mr Shane Currie

To end the year on a comedic note, in todays article I provide an example of how generative AI can be used to make realistic looking short videos of fictional persons and animals. To provide an example of the current potentials of generative AI I have created a few short videos of a fictional Emu invasion of Australia.

Disclaimer: It should be noted that the following videos are a complete work of fiction, no actual real life humans or animals were used in these videos. Images of humans and animals are 100% Artificially generated, they are not real and do not exist.

Note, if the videos are blurry, just watch directly on youtube

In the first short video, Emus invade a fictional city of Australia while the citizens flee the invasion.

In the second short video the Emu Second lieutenant stands on a podium and addresses its new subjects after the invasion.

In the third video, the Emu Leader interviews one of its subjects in a jourlustic studio, the mere thought of objecting to the Emu Leader sends chills through the news anchor , who fears that dissent could cost them their career, or their freedom..

In the fourth video to this series, the Emus hold a military style parade down the streets of a fictional city of Australia.

In the fifth video, the Emus march in formation down the street in front of their new Australian subjects in a fictional Australian country town

In the sixth & seventh videos, the Australians protest against their new Emu Overlords.

In the eighth video, the Emus and their Human Subjects celebrate NYE 2025 in an old style fictional Australian town

In the Ninth and Tenth videos secret government agents visit the disadvantaged Emus to encourage them to overthrow their Emu leader, stay tuned for the next episodes.

Note, teachers do have permission to use these videos for educational purposes

While this example of generative AI does showcase a humourist approach to a subject, there is a point to this article. That point is to not believe everything that you may see or read on social media or the internet. Earlier versions of generative AI have been used for years on social media. It has been well known for years that social media allows the use of bot accounts (Via the purchasing of APIs and Python Scripts) that can be programmed to push marketing agendas, or even political agenda.

The best form to combat misinformation on social media, is a simple one. Simply visit your local library, pick up a book, and read it! Its is unlikely that an AI system will attempt to manipulate you via a book, or a newspaper. Personally myself, I dont use social media as I got better things to do (however, I do use YouTube, but more for the purpose of offloading the bandwidth on my website to save me money on my server running costs)

Furthermore, watching the AI generated videos I can note some slight mistakes proving that generative AI is still not perfect. Feel free to comment on the YouTube videos if you can spot the errors. Also, Generative AI does struggle to create text in the AI generated videos.

Further mistakes made by AI include displaying incorrect country flags over a fictional Australian city. In one video (that I have since deleted) I asked generative AI to create a video of Emus invading the Sydney harbor bridge. For some reason, generative AI decided to include a United States of America flag on top of the harbor bridge, that I did find funny but is obviously incorrect.

When generating videos, I find its best to prompt AI to not include any national flags, symbols or well known Australian landmarks as AI makes mistakes and it just looks silly and something bugs me about having AI generate national flags and symbols. So, generating Australian architecture based in a fictional Australian city seems to be the best way to prompt AI generative video tools.

I will possibly make more videos, in my spare time regarding this fictional invasion of Australia by the Emu overlords (So return to this page to see new posted videos). In the meantime I hope everyone has enjoyed Christmas & their holiday breaks and welcomes in 2025 as a productive and successful year.

P.S, Relax Hollywood and paid actors and extras, I am not going to take your jobs with my fancy generative AI videos. My business interests are cyber security and networking. These videos are for educational purposes only. I got better things to do then Hollywood, your jobs are safe, it is all good. I am quite sure the movie studios will still hire you for whatever it is that you are paid to do.