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I Gave ChatGPT and Claude $500 to Build Rival Anime Studios

Noble Goose· 13.2K subscribers

16d ago · en-US audio

I gave ChatGPT and Claude $500 each to build rival AI anime studios, then made them compete: the winning studio gets $1,000 to make its anime movie, and the losing studio gets shut down. Running as Codex and Claude Code, each AI controlled its own computer and had to research, write, generate, voice, score, and edit an original 60-to-90-second anime movie trailer without my help, using TopView (Seedance), Kling,…

4.3×Above the channel median
52.7KViews
117.5Avg. views / hour · 1.6h window
12.3KMedian · 43 videos

Outlier score

52.7K views ÷ a 12.3K baseline = 4.3×. Compared with 43 earlier videos from the same channel, matching the format recorded at scoring time. Older-upload baseline: reference videos had at least as long to gain views. This comparison is not age-matched.

YouTube snapshot: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:32:44 GMT. Counters may have changed.

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Channel-balanced percentile: 88

Comparison details

84 videos from 58 other channels, with each channel weighted equally. Same format and language, with 10,000–99,999 subscribers. Observed at 398 hours after publication, within ±48 hours.

This describes the collected sample, not all of YouTube. Updated Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:38:54 GMT.

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