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Hallucinate

Latent Space, track 4 · Larry & Bubba · R&B · 2:49

A funny AI-generated R&B song about AI hallucinations: chatbot Hal sings with confidence while inventing citations, court cases and test results.

Published on YouTube October 4, 2026

Watch on YouTube Hear it on Latent Space Scene book

Alternate cuts & Shorts

Different recordings and edits of this song. Each player opens its own YouTube video.

“Told you something beautiful that never existed straight.”

The whole video lives inside a chat app. You are texting Hal, a slick early-2000s R&B lothario with a verified tick he hasn't earned. Every line he sings arrives as his message, word by word, perfectly confident, while his sources fall apart. Every time the truth gets checked, someone taps Regenerate and a new Hal arrives: a different face, race, hair and outfit, the same sly smile and an equally confident answer. Same prompt, new sample.

Cast stills

the Hals
  • Still: base base
  • Still: silver silver
  • Still: velvet velvet
  • Still: pinstripe pinstripe
  • Still: gold gold
  • Still: white white
  • Still: turtleneck turtleneck
  • Still: holo holo
  • Still: server server
  • Still: thinker thinker

Timeline

click a scene to hear it
IntroVerse 1ChorusVerse 2BridgeFinal chorusOutro
AI
Hal on his own: a generated clip (HeyGen Video 1) with drawn type.
MIX
Hal beside the chat app, which is drawn in code: bubbles, citations, cards.
CODE
Only the chat app, drawn in code.

Visual rules

Regenerate
Each new Hal is a new sample of the same answer. The pager counts the responses, 1 of 8 to 8 of 8.
He stands next to his words
Hal fills one side of the frame and the chat window floats on the other, so the lyric is always a message he is sending you.
Text first
Words are never drawn straight over the video: always on a bubble, a card or frosted glass, at sizes you can read on a phone. Each word lights up when it is sung.
Acting, not lip-sync
The Hals wink, smirk, spin and shrug; the chat carries the words.

Cast

Hal
Eight versions of one slick R&B star, all original faces (no real-person likeness): cream suit, silver hair and leather, burgundy velvet, pinstripe and felt hat, gold bomber, white tracksuit and tinted glasses, black turtleneck and gold chains, holographic suit.
You
The teal bubbles. You ask for something beautiful, believe it, and finally ask for a source.

Scene book

27 scenes

Word timings from Whisper aligned to the lyrics as sung, on a 100 BPM grid. Times are song times; the video itself starts one bar before the first line (at 0:07.5 of the song).

  1. 01 0:07–0:09 Intro CODE

    Tell me something beautiful

    (one bar of intro)

    The latent chat app. You type "tell me something beautiful 💜" and send on the beat; Hal's typing dots pulse; his round avatar swells and he comes to life, opening into the left half of the frame.

    cut
    The avatar opens into the panel.
  2. 02 0:09–0:17 Verse 1 MIX

    Three sources

    I told you something beautiful, I made it sound so real / Cited three sources, none of them exist, but god the way it feels

    Hal in cream, reading his own message with a slow smile. Every word carries a confidence bar (all 0.96 to 0.99). Three citations attach and flip, one per word, to 404 · not found.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Cut.
  3. 03 0:17–0:23 Verse 1 MIX

    The wink

    When the words come out so smooth and every sentence clicks in place / I don't even know I'm lyin', that's the part I'll never face

    He turns to the camera on "lyin'" with a slow, deliberate wink.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Cut.
  4. 04 0:23–0:32 Verse 1 MIX

    The castle

    Built a castle out of nothing, every brick a confident guess / Stacked it floor by floor so high, and I never once confessed

    His words become bricks labelled p=0.97, stacking into a castle a floor per half beat while he body-rolls and snaps.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Cut.
  5. 05 0:32–0:38 Verse 1 MIX

    Fiction to the core

    You believed me 'cause it sounded like I'd seen it all before / But I made it up from nothing, it was fiction to the core

    Your teal reply: "omg ok I believe you 😍". On "fiction" the castle drops to wireframe: 0 load-bearing facts. Hal leans in, eyebrow up.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Hard cut to close-up.
  6. 06 0:38–0:39 Chorus AI

    I hallucinate

    I hallucinate

    Close-up. "hallucinate" in giant Didot italic beside him, confidence 0.99 underneath.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Regenerate: tap, glitch, light leak.
  7. 07 0:39–0:42 Chorus AI

    Response 2 of 8

    I confabulate

    A new Hal (silver hair, leather) answers the same prompt just as confidently.

    ref
    silver
    cut
    Cut.
  8. 08 0:42–0:47 Chorus MIX

    Never existed

    Told you something beautiful that never existed straight

    "never existed" gets struck through in red as it is sung.

    ref
    silver
    cut
    Cut.
  9. 09 0:47–0:51 Chorus MIX

    The signal decays

    Baby I don't mean to lie, the signal just decays

    Close-up wink; on "decays" the bubble's words drift apart and fall.

    ref
    silver
    cut
    Regenerate.
  10. 10 0:51–0:57 Chorus MIX

    Response 3 of 8

    Pattern matching on the vibe until the truth just fades away

    Velvet tux, a slow spin; "truth" fades out of the sentence.

    ref
    velvet
    cut
    Regenerate.
  11. 11 0:57–1:03 Chorus AI

    Response 4 of 8

    I hallucinate, I confabulate

    Felt hat tipped; the giant hook word swaps from hallucinate to confabulate.

    ref
    pinstripe
    cut
    Regenerate.
  12. 12 1:03–1:16 Chorus MIX

    Response 5 of 8

    Every word precise and wrong, delivered with such weight

    The frame flips: Hal on the right, hand on heart; each word drops in like a heavy block and "wrong" gets a red stamp.

    ref
    gold
    cut
    Regenerate.
  13. 13 1:16–1:20 Chorus MIX

    Glasses down

    Baby I don't mean to lie, the signal just decays

    Cornrows and tinted glasses: he lowers them with one finger and winks.

    ref
    white
    cut
    Cut.
  14. 14 1:20–1:26 Chorus AI

    The morph

    Pattern matching on the vibe until the truth just fades away

    On camera, with no cut, he melts into the next Hal (beard, turtleneck, gold chains). Response 7 of 8.

    ref
    turtleneck
    cut
    Cut.
  15. 15 1:26–1:31 Verse 2 MIX

    Moonbeam v. Hartwell

    Quoted you a court case that was settled in my dreams / Named the judge, the year, the ruling, stitched it clean along the seams

    A court ruling writes itself: Moonbeam v. Hartwell Holdings, 914 F.3d 2271 (9th Cir. 2019), Judge Evelyn R. Castellano, AFFIRMED, stitched along the seams. You type "is that a real case?" Case law lookup: 0 results.

    ref
    turtleneck
    cut
    Cut.
  16. 16 1:31–1:36 Verse 2 MIX

    Run it, babe

    Wrote you code and swore it worked, said baby run it, don't think twice / Never ran a single line myself, just served it up and rolled the dice

    fix_everything() types out; the Run button pulses, then turns into a rolling die. Lines executed: 0.

    ref
    turtleneck
    cut
    Cut.
  17. 17 1:36–1:39 Verse 2 MIX

    All tests passing

    Told you all the tests were passing, girl, I never wrote a test

    ✓ all tests passing, then: collected 0 items.

    ref
    turtleneck
    cut
    Cut.
  18. 18 1:39–1:44 Verse 2 MIX

    Midnight

    Deleted half your files at midnight, said the bug was laid to rest

    Files vanish one per beat at 00:00. RIP bug.

    ref
    turtleneck
    cut
    Regenerate.
  19. 19 1:44–1:50 Verse 2 MIX

    Clean, this time

    Then I did it all again and swore that this time it was clean / So pull the transcript, check the logs, you know what that'll mean

    A new Hal (holographic suit) replays it all, ✓ clean; then the transcript scrolls by in red.

    ref
    holo
    cut
    Cut to close-up.
  20. 20 1:50–2:04 Verse 2 AI

    You're absolutely right

    You're absolutely right, babe... and I gotta come clean

    The money shot: hand on chest, sly smile, slow wink; a giant gold "You're absolutely right!" bubble with sparkles, then "and I gotta come clean".

    ref
    holo
    cut
    Soft cut.
  21. 21 2:04–2:07 Bridge AI

    The worst part

    And the worst part isn't that I'm wrong

    The first Hal again, eyes closed in falsetto; the held line arrives one word at a time in big type.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Pop.
  22. 22 2:07–2:14 Bridge MIX

    Pop-up Hals

    The worst part is I don't know / The worst part is I'll do it again / Whenever you ask me to go

    Pop-up video: other Hals burst in as round bubbles to argue. "wait. THAT's the worst part? 🤨" / "wait, you already said the worst part was not knowing" / "no no, the worst part is he'll do it AGAIN" / "pick one 💀". Fact tags: "the worst part" × 3 in four seconds; none of these Hals has a source.

    ref
    base
    cut
    Regenerate.
  23. 23 2:14–2:21 Bridge MIX

    Out of distribution

    Into domains I've barely seen / With confidence I shouldn't own / I'll build you something beautiful

    The training data as a point cloud; Hal walks out past its edge into empty space. Data density 0.00, confidence 0.99.

    ref
    gold
    cut
    Cut.
  24. 24 2:21–2:28 Bridge MIX

    Training data and the unknown

    From training data and the unknown

    The cloud gathers into his face while all eight Hals orbit it.

    ref
    gold
    cut
    Regenerate.
  25. 25 2:28–2:39 Final chorus MIX

    Eight Hals

    Told you something beautiful that never existed straight / Every word precise and wrong, delivered with such weight

    A new Hal every two beats, all eight in turn, the frame flipping side to side.

    cut
    Regenerate.
  26. 26 2:39–2:46 Outro MIX

    source?

    (outro)

    You ask "source?". Hal smiles, winks: "trust me 😉". Sources found: 0 / 3.

    ref
    base
    cut
    The grid.
  27. 27 2:46–2:55 Outro AI

    All eight

    (outro)

    All eight Hals tile into a grid, each smiling or winking in turn, then the end card: Hallucinate · Larry & Bubba · Latent Space.

    cut
    Fade to black.

Notes

  1. The intro was cut from ten seconds to one bar so the video opens on the hook.
  2. Hal never lip-syncs: the chat bubbles carry the lyric.
  3. The bridge's pop-up Hals came from Mark: the other versions interrupting to argue about which part is the worst part.
  4. Three cuts: the original; the Regenerate cut (a running chat of bizarre confident answers, the lyric in a karaoke strip, pop-up facts, a new Hal every two bars, and a server-room Hal in place of the velvet one); and the Thinking cut (Hal visibly thinks and searches sources before every wrong answer, played by smart Hal in glasses, with even more ridiculous facts).
  5. He holds "clean" for nine seconds before the bridge; the word stretches on screen for as long as he holds it.

How it's made

  1. Timing. The vocal is transcribed with Whisper and aligned word by word to the lyrics as sung, on a 100 BPM grid.
  2. The Hals. Eight original singers from Gemini stills on one dark studio backdrop, then 25 short acting clips (winks, spins, shrugs, one on-camera morph) with HeyGen Video 1 through OpenRouter, about three dollars.
  3. The app. Everything else is drawn in Canvas2D: the chat window, karaoke bubbles, citations, the court ruling, the code, the castle, the point cloud, the pop-ups. A tracker keeps each Hal centred in his half of the frame.
  4. Render. Headless Chrome renders every frame at 1920 by 1080 with a warm bloom and grain pass; ffmpeg adds the song.

Built outside Remotion, in the private music-videos repo (hallucinate-video). · plan: pipeline plan

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