AI Snatched Femmebot 10.0’s Animation Job!
RunwayML Introduces AI-Powered Lip Sync Feature, plus, get your TikToks uploaded in a snap with Opus Clip and check out Isabel Custer's Femmebot costume makeover for Dr. Nutmeg's Turing Test!
Welcome back to The FACTory! I’m Dr. Nutmeg, and bruh — have I got some Futuristic Third Eye Witness newz for you! Just when Femmebot 10.0 got upgraded with Adobe Character Animator for lip syncing, guess what??? RunwayML literally just dropped a new lip syncing feature in its generative audio platform. Can you believe that? All we have to do is upload an image to the app, add some text, pick a voice, and voila! Your character is animated. This is why Dr. Nutmeg’s Femmebots® are NO MATCH for AI!
Femmebot 10.0: Wait. What? I am a bot. I am AI.
Dr. Nutmeg: This doesn’t mean you’re working with the same data inputs as those other bots at RunwayML, hun.
You gotta see it to believe it!
To see for yourself, take a look at Isabel Custer’s makeover below as she answers one of Dr. Nutmeg’s Turing Test questions from last week: “How should a #LatinasinTech TV show be different from ‘Silicon Valley’ on HBO?”
OMG, it makes me LoL.
Compare the above RunwayML makeover to Femmebot 10.0’s Adobe Character Animator makeover below:
Dang! What a world we’re living in. time to flip to other newzzz…
Get those TikToks uploaded in a snap with Opus Clip!
Our second short and sweet AI workshop is about Opus Clip, a new app that chops long videos into short, byte-sized clips for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and other vertically-oriented video platforms.
In the “traditional” YouTube video below, I decided to take off my Dr. Nutmeg mask because that’s what the Wizard of Oz does (with the help of Toto) at the end of the movie. Sure, I took off the mask in a few previous workshops, so this isn’t really new-new, pero, in our last episode of Season 3 of Dr. Nutmeg’s Femmebots® I just wanted everyone to see my real Latina face as I promote our real #LatinasinTech community!
Epilogue: Now what?
In the first issue (November 23, 2023) of Dr. Nutmeg’s Femmebots®, we promised to publish regularly until March 31, which happens to be Easter. It’s a time of death and rebirth, and that’s exactly how we plan our cycles of entrepreneurship. Prototype and pivot; A/B test and kill your babies; step-ball-change and pivot again. It’s kinda like salsa dancing, duh — all #LatinasinTech know this! So let’s recap the season:
Hypothesis: IF we could find at least 500 subscribers to pay $5/mo or $30 for a year of Dr. Nutmeg’s Femmebots® by March 31, 2024, THEN we could continue publishing through the end of 2024.
Conclusion: As of today, March 25, we’ve sold 2 subscriptions ($60) one t-shirt ($25). We also comped 10 subscriptions to those who gave to our original Kickstarter and/or have become colleagues and team members during Season 3.
∴ Therefore, our official scientific hypothesis is officially NOT SUPPORTED. However, we do know that we set a goal that was unrealistic — it is imperative that every entrepreneur define a VALUE PROPOSITION that fills a NEED in the market.
In other words, it would be nice to represent more #LatinasinTech in a TV show on Netflix, and it could help us squash our PAIN POINT of #ImposterSyndrome, but no one needs this Substack to survive. It doesn’t provide money, food, software, or housing. It’s really just a passion project full of L-O-V-E…entonces, it’s time for another pivot!
Q2 Pivot
The open rate for Edith Quintanilla’s ARTrepreneur presentation last week was a whopping 80% so we know y’all are interested in seeing more #LatinasinTech like Edith.
We also have more Femmebots t-shirts to sell. Check out Erika Mayol of Chop Cook Cake modeling the one we made her, she looks so cute!
And now that we have a new way to create animated Femmebots with both Adobe Character Animator and RunwayML, we could potentially write some funny scripts to upload to TikTok to keep building the audience through the end of Q2.
But what if the Senate outlaws TikTok?
New Hypothesis #1: IF we attend the upcoming Latinas in Tech Summit happening May 16-17, we could really make an impact on the community by promoting this Substack and our TikTok channel, while pitching to summit sponsors and potential investors who would like to see this as a fully fleshed out series on Netflix.
Here are the options we’re considering for the Latinas in Tech Summit:
Become a $15k sponsor
Buy a $450 VIP ticket
Buy a regular $300 ticket
Buy a $150 virtual ticket
None of the above…it’s time to STOP this project!
If you’re more interested in Maria La Gata…
At the same time, the open rate for “The Nine Lives of Maria La Gata” has been ranging between 66% and 90% so we also know there is interest in a story about a Latina rum runner in 1920s Harlem and Puerto Rico. But it feels like a totally separate project from Dr. Nutmeg’s Femmebots®, soooooo…
New Hypothesis #2: IF we keep workshopping “Maria La Gata” here on Substack during Q2, THEN we will have a better chance of landing a literary agent who can then option the story to a film production company on a platform like WriteSeen.