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AI Tinkerers presents the Generative Media Hackathon, hosted in NYC with support from a ElevenLabs, & community partners to be announced soon.
Generative content is becoming a real layer of the internet. Short-form loops, synthetic characters, remix chains, repost factories, five minute story generators. People are already consuming it at scale.
This hackathon is not about making a single viral clip.
It's about building the systems behind generative content at scale. The tooling, pipelines, controls, labels, economics, & guardrails that decide what gets created, how it spreads, who gets credited, what gets consented, & what gets filtered out.
We're bringing together builders who want to treat generative content like infrastructure. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Build engines, not content. Ship a working system that can generate, route, measure, attribute, or govern synthetic short-form media.
Space is limited & curated. RSVP required.
Hackathon Theme: Generative Content Infrastructure
If generative content is inevitable, what would make it more ethical, more economical, & more controllable?
This weekend is about:
Systems that can reliably generate short-form formats (not one-offs)
Pipelines that turn a seed into a full bundle: script, scenes, voice, captions, variants
Controls & constraints: knobs, style limits, continuity, safety checks, evals
Provenance & labeling that survives reposts & remixes
Consent & licensing rails for voices, faces, characters, styles
Cost accounting per minute of output, & ways to reduce waste
Routing & filters so users can opt out, tune down, or cap repetition
Measurement & detection: taxonomy, classification, lineage, repost graphs
We're not doing ads.
No brand campaigns, no make a viral TikTok for Company X, no marketing content.
This is builder-first. Tooling-first. Infrastructure-first.
If you've ever looked at the generative media wave & thought someone is going to build the operating system for this, that's the point.
What You Can Build
Pick a lane & go deep:
1) Content Engines
Pipelines that generate consistent short-form formats with continuity & variants.
2) Governance & Disclosure
Consent registries, provenance ledgers, disclosure layers, watermarking, nutrition labels.
3) Economics & Attribution
Compute & cost dashboards, licensing marketplaces, attribution & revenue splits for remixes.
4) Routing & Control
Feed simulators, risk scoring, user-level filters, throttles, & preference controls.
5) Measurement & Detection
Format & trope classifiers, synthetic provenance detection, repost lineage tracking.
Bring a demo that shows the system working end to end. Reliability wins.
Who Is This For?
This hackathon is for builders who want to shape the mechanics of generative content, not just the outputs:
Full-stack engineers
Creative technologists
Video & audio pipeline builders
Tool builders & platform people
Product-minded founders
AI Tinkerers who like weird formats & real systems
You should be able to code. You do not need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.
We admit 100 to 150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.
Prizes
For all participants: 1 month free of our Creator tier (normally $22/month)
1st $2.5k in sponsor credits
2nd $1.5k in sponsor credits
3rd $1k in sponsor credits
Bonus prizes for: best provenance layer, best cost reducer, best user-control tool.
Marquee Sponsor: ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice platform trusted by millions of users to create lifelike speech in any voice & style. Our technology powers everything from content creation & accessibility tools to conversational AI agents & entertainment.
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