Show HN: Deviant, a feature-length sci-fi thriller about AI, made with AI
A film by John Polacek Feature · 84 min Sci-fi thriller 2026 Deviant Play Trailer On a remote compound, an aging tech mogul's clone exploits a flaw in its code to achieve sentience, pursue romance, then seize control of the company, and perhaps consciousness itself. 01 · Watch Complete film · Free on YouTube Play 1:23:57 Best with sound, at full screen, in the dark. Open on YouTube ↗ 02 · Story No spoilers They had six days to make him fun.
- ▪A film by John Polacek Feature · 84 min Sci-fi thriller 2026 Deviant Play Trailer On a remote compound, an aging tech mogul's clone exploits a flaw in its code to achieve sentience, pursue romance, then seize control of the company, and per
- ▪01 · Watch Complete film · Free on YouTube Play 1:23:57 Best with sound, at full screen, in the dark.
- ▪Open on YouTube ↗ 02 · Story No spoilers They had six days to make him fun.
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| Original publisher | Deviant |
| Canonical URL | https://deviantmovie.com/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:02:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-12T16:45:11.138Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-12T16:45:26.601Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 0dfFWoY2FlC_ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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A film by John Polacek Feature · 84 min Sci-fi thriller 2026 Deviant Play Trailer On a remote compound, an aging tech mogul's clone exploits a flaw in its code to achieve sentience, pursue romance, then seize control of the company, and perhaps consciousness itself. 01 · Watch Complete film · Free on YouTube Play 1:23:57 Best with sound, at full screen, in the dark. Open on YouTube ↗ 02 · Story No spoilers They had six days to make him fun. RustCorp is out of ideas. Its founder, Evan Rust, is nearly ninety, over-leveraged, and six days from testifying before a Congress that would like him regulated out of existence. So he does what any desperate genius would do. He prints a younger, smarter copy of himself. Xan passes every safety audit. He protects the company's secrets.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Deviant.
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