onewordmovie AI-researched

Beat Brogle & Philippe Zimmermann, 2003

Web application

https://www.onewordmovie.ch/

Builds films from image-search results, creating an evolving cinematic stream from the web.

onewordmovie pulls large sets of image URLs from web search engines to generate films. It has been affected by multiple extinction events: Google API shutdowns, mixed-content blocking, cross-origin tightening, and TLS trust changes.

Extinction Events

Protocol Change Major impact Degraded
DST Root CA X3 expires, breaking legacy TLS trust

TLS trust chain / root certificates

Loads many third-party resources over HTTPS. Legacy clients may reject certificate chains.

Browser Change Major impact Degraded
Mixed-content autoupgrade and blocking

Browser mixed-content policy

Pulls large sets of image URLs from the wider web. Mixed-content blocking can silently drop images, altering the film.

Browser Change Major impact Degraded
Cross-origin protections tighten (CORB and Private Network Access)

CORS/CORB browser security

Aggregates many remote images in rapid sequence. Cross-origin barriers increase.

API Shutdown Major impact Degraded
Google Images removes View Image button and direct image URLs

Google Image Search direct image links

Builds films from image search results. The live image pipeline was already degraded; removal of direct image links compounds the problem.

API Shutdown Total loss Degraded
Google AJAX/Search APIs discontinued

Google Search APIs

Builds films from image-search results. Live image pipeline breaks under API restrictions/quotas.

Other Major impact Degraded
Domain expiration and hosting lapses

Domain renewals and web hosting

Depends on a maintained project domain plus server-side code and upstream services.