“AI games are going to be amazing (sound on).” That’s the only context provided for the latest viral clip of a video game produced with generative AI tools. It’s trash, a bizarre real-time hallucination of someone’s idea of an on-rails Tom Clancy game that’s revolting to witness but hard to turn away from.
The clip was shared yesterday on X by Matt Shuman, the CEO of “rare Long Island AI startup” HyperWrite, as a tease for an upcoming project. “I’ll be making this public soon! Completely open-source and community-driven,” he added in a follow-up post. While the slop in question appears at first glance to be simulating a third-person shooter, a series of periodic prompt choices at the bottom of the screen suggests its more of a choose-your-own-adventure in which the AI cobbles together the next section based on what you’ve just selected.
The result is a series of wonky, Matrix-like visual sleight-of-hands which make it feel like reality is falling apart and slipping past itself. A bus platform melts into a subway station. Cars are underground. HVAC systems are stacked on top of each other. Cascading tunnel systems look like a collage of discordant film reels being violently edited together. Multiple transportation signs read “Uptoon.”
AI games are going to be amazing
(sound on) pic.twitter.com/66aOdWJr4Y
— Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) October 23, 2025
Anytime the SWAT-looking avatar has to actually do something like shoot a gun, throw a grenade, or climb down a ladder, it looks like the type of glitch that circulates online when a big-budget blockbuster bombs. But my favorite part is near the end of the clip when the character is told to find cover from an enemy chopper, even though they’re already inside a sewer beneath the street.
The video ends on a shot of a random pile of left-over PVC pipe cuttings. The monstrosity looks less like the type of reveal trailer meant to get fans hyped about an upcoming game at an old E3 than one of those spam mobile gaming ads you get fed on social media where the 30-second arc is so full of internet brainrot you can’t help but watch to the end. It satisfies your curiosity but not the need to impose some sort of meaning over its algorithmically generated cascade of unrelated signifiers.
“There’s a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B, a new large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s open source Llama 3.1-70B Instruct that leverages a new error self-correction technique and boasts superior performance on third-party benchmarks,” reads a VentureBeat write-up from a year ago. Just days after that announcement, he was accused of fraud for peddling bogus benchmarks.
