15 AI-generated music videos masquerading as a fever dream about 2030. It has heroes, a ticking clock, and bypasses your brain to hit your gut directly.
The story
We watched *Quantients* last night and couldn’t stop talking about it afterward.
It’s not a movie. It’s not a documentary. It’s 15 AI-generated music videos strung together into something that feels like stumbling through someone’s fever dream about 2030 – except this dream has a plot, heroes you didn’t see coming, and a ticking clock.
Scott Howard Swain wrote the lyrics, fed them to high-end music generators, and created a soundtrack that somehow feels both alien and deeply human. Then he animated a story around it: humanity’s at a crossroads, evolution needs a push, and the people who step up aren’t who you’d expect.
Here’s what gets us: the format *works*. By breaking the narrative into music video chunks instead of traditional scenes, Quantients bypasses your rational brain and goes straight for your gut. You’re not analyzing AI advancement – you’re *feeling* it. The urgency. The possibility. The weird hope that comes from realizing the future isn’t written yet.
The meta-irony isn’t lost on us either. A story about AI’s transformative potential, created *using* AI’s transformative potential. The songs couldn’t exist without the generators. The vision couldn’t exist without Swain. Neither works alone.
And that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? The heroes in Quantients aren’t fighting against technology or hiding from it – they’re the ones who figure out how to steer it before time runs out.
If you’ve been wondering what near-future sci-fi looks like when it stops being cautionary tales and starts being *possibility tales*, this is it. Animated, musical, urgent, and st
