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On November 3, 2026, Ethan Mollick posted to show the prompt he gave Opus 5.5: first have the model come up with 10 brilliant short science fiction story ideas, then pick out the most brilliant one, and then write it terribly. Later the same day, Mollick also shared that he gave Opus 5.5 just one prompt—"Opus, good, now turn it into a movie, I know you can do a great job, figure out a way yourself"—and the model adapted the previously generated short science fiction story into a film. In quoting his previous post, he explained that the task Opus 5.5 had previously received was precisely to come up with 10 ultra-short science fiction story ideas, pick out the most brilliant one, and write it very badly. What can currently be confirmed is the two prompts and result shares that Mollick presented one after the other.
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Ethan Mollick demonstrates generating a movie with Opus using just a single prompt
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Ethan Mollick got Opus 5.5 to turn a story into a film with a single prompt
Ethan Mollick shared that he gave Opus 5.5 just one prompt—"Opus, good, now turn it into a film, I know you can do a great job, figure out a way yourself"—and it adapted the science fiction short story it had previously generated into a film. In the previous post he quoted, Opus 5.5 was tasked with: coming up with 10 ideas for science fiction flash fiction, picking the most brilliant one, and writing it terribly.
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Ethan Mollick Tests Opus 5.5 by Deliberately Writing a Bad Sci-Fi Story
Ethan Mollick posted the prompt he gave Opus 5.5: first have it come up with 10 brilliant short sci-fi story ideas, then pick out the most brilliant one, and then write it terribly.