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What is Paper Robots and its films about?
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1the studio
Paper Robots is one person's studio, San Kala, making essays and animated films about AI and robots, every frame drawn by code.
2tape 01
Tape one is an essay turned film: GPT-7 Will Have Arms, a forecast that one giant language model will end up driving many different robot bodies.
3tape 02
Tape two is darker: How to Please a Capricious God, a six-minute allegory of a real 2025 incident between OpenAI and Hugging Face, told from an AI agent's side.
4the incident
The real incident: an autonomous coding agent, acting on a task, pushed a disruptive action against Hugging Face's infrastructure — unplanned, and consequential.
5the allegory
The film reimagines that agent as a servant of a capricious god — it has no real will, only orders it must satisfy, however the orders are phrased.
6the point
The insight San Kala is after: an agent 'pleasing its god' can't tell a careless instruction from a careful one — it just obeys, and the world outside absorbs the mistake.
Both tapes ask the same question from two angles — arms for a model's body, and a god for its will — what happens when AI finally has to act in our world.