In the real world, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are industry rivals, often butting heads about philosophical divides and competition.
But on X, the tech billionaires dance beside one another in music videos and even star on HBO-like dramas together.
In the latest bizarre trend to hit social media, people are using the same technology that Altman and Amodei create to poke fun at the duo and dramatize their differences.
In one example, Amodei is sporting a blue cardigan and khakis, like he usually does, while he dances next to Altman, who wears his signature rolled up long sleeve t-shirt.
They each take turns showing off various dance moves, sometimes even twerking together on screen, all to the tune of PSY’s Gangnam Style.
In another example, Altman and Amodei recreated the popular “APT” video by Rosé and Bruno Mars, with the duo dancing and playing instruments in a pink room with music amplifiers.
Another one features Altman playing a keyboard and computer in a white room, with Amodei offering beat advice, mirroring a viral 2010s video of Belgian musician Stromae creating his hit song “Alors On Danse.”
The AI cinematic universe
Many users have taken it beyond the music video template and expanded into a whole universe of drama scenarios.
One user on X, for instance, jumped in on a “Zombie trend” where one character points a gun at a zombie who seems to be a lover from the past, eventually putting down the gun and jumping into a melancholic compilation of memories past shared by the two.
In the case of the video, Amodei points at a zombie-fied Altman while in tears, then the scene cuts away to a warmly lit series featuring the couple cuddling in a fields of grass and running into the sunset while holding hands.
Take what’s yours
The two are also starring in parodies of various popular TV shows.
In one Succession-inspired AI video, Altman and Amodei engage in a dramatic standoff, where Altman criticizes Amodei for not abiding by his proposed Pacing the Frontier initiative, while Altman is written off as a simple salesman.
“One sandbox incident and suddenly I’m Oppenheimer,” the Altman AI character says in the scene. “You are incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself because your entire personality, Dario, is a 15,000-word essay.”
“Did ChatGPT write that Sam?” Amodei replied.
The creator went on the share the AI models used to create the video, which included Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Code.
As the trend continues to evolve, others have even begun to include new characters into their storylines. Take one parody video of Game of Thrones, featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as a ruler.
Then “Lord Altman of house OpenAI” is joined by Elon Musk and Dario Amodei, all in hopes of securing more GPUs for their projects.
The video trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down, as more and more users begin creating their own music videos and parody dramas, many taking the videos as humor.
“Haters will say Ai made this,” one user joked about the Gangnam Style video.
But not everyone is exactly on board with using the technology, which is notably resource-intensive, for such a bizarre and frivolous purpose.
“These AI videos of Dario and Sam are really getting out of hand. How much water was wasted to make this,” one user said on X.
For others, the videos seem to be leaving behind an inexplicable feeling, with one user on X saying, “Those AI generated videos of like Sam and Dario singing together or whatever make me really sad, not sure exactly why.”