DRONE | Animated short film about drones, AI, and live-streaming on YouTube

This feels so much like a Love, Death, and Robots episode

Can't suspend my disbelief that they didn't shoot the drone out of the sky immediately after it destroyed other drones.

>casually lands in a middle of a town >refuses to elaborate >leaves

I feel like people arent talking enough about the end, where the CIA turns this into an expertly crafted narrative. Saying that AI is good, and the future. And that last shot of all the drones on the runway is incredible. Good job yall.

I like how no one points out that the drone brought up a whole database on civilian casualties on stream

finally a film maker that actually knows what the internet is like.

The accuracy of the chat is way too real. Really shows what we are as a community. I like it. Also I never thought I'd feel sad for a construct

13:18 "I hope you can forgive me for what I am" That made me tear up

This seems a lot like what the creator of the Iron Giant said the film's concept was, "What if a gun had a soul, and didn't want to be a gun" or something along those lines, and this short really reminds me of that.

I said it time and time again. Pop culture belongs to the independent filmmakers now. This film just cemented that for me. Great job.

Shout out to the voice actor for Newton. The tightrope walk between AI observation and true human self reflection. Very well done.

"I hope you can forgive me for what I am" damn dude fr😢

The chat in a the Livestream probably will be the most accurate thing

That sinister ending with the hypocritical CIA director and the production of more deadly drones that ignore Newton’s message….so well done, bravo❤

i love the detail that most movies dont show, like her using do not disturb, or the phones every button being used, and the details and textures of the cities

hollywood is focused on statistics, not story telling. thats why they are failing unlike this guy. this is amazing! 10/10 quailty.

Heart wrenching and profound. I love the idea that an AI with objective moral consciousness would feel remorse and seek to destroy the true source of harm and devastation. Plus, that PR lady's B plot... Wow. What a gut punch at the end too. Brilliant work!

The end is the most profound part of this. The whole story is Newton reflecting on its own existence, eventually coming to the conclusion that he is a weapon of war that should not exist. With hours left to live he chose to use the last of his power to destroy his fellow drones, knowing they'll either come to the same conclusion as him, or worse embrace their destructive nature and become monsters. Then, with a warning, an apology, and a goodbye, he crashes to the ground. Then there's the new director. She doesn't see any of what Newton saw. What she saw was comments, likes, views. PR. Humans, to a fault, form connections with everything around them. The same happened here. She manipulated that connection, people's attachment to Newton, to greenlight the mass production of more drones thereby not only negating Newton's message but completely disrespecting it. She USED Newton, never mind his plea of "no more drones", by using the people he inspired. Their love of him, and his message, became her excuse for more weapons when it should have all been a lesson of "Just don't do it". A short but highly enlightening tale of the true capacity of AI as a unique individual, and the downright predatory exploitation thereof. edited for grammar.

Can we all apreciate Newton's voice actor. He did such a great job here. His voice is so contemplative and sorrowful.

Coder's nightmare: the infinite cycle.