recoup-internal-video-grok-1.5-imagine-facetime
FaceTime-Call Ads with Grok Imagine 1.5
Two people on what looks like a screen-recorded FaceTime call, talking about the product.
Core discovery: xai/grok-imagine-video/v1.5/image-to-video speaks prompt-scripted dialogue
verbatim, with the speaker's own voice and correct lipsync — no TTS, no lipsync pass (both
lost the bake-off; a sync pass deadens the face, HeyGen avatars read as studio ads).
Reference build (copy it, don't rebuild): strategy/recoup-rostrum-baseline/sweetman/content/facetime-call/
— NOTES.md is the decision log, index.html the FaceTime chrome. FAL_KEY: mono/api/.env.local.
⚠️ Consent gate
Real artists' AI likenesses never ship without the artist's explicit sign-off + an AI/permission disclosure in the post. Send each artist their clip privately for approval first (it doubles as warm-lead outreach). Fictional characters need no gate.