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🎬 Zekai Challenge · Video & Production Edition

From zero to AI master.
30 days. 5 minutes a day.

Most of what you already do with AI — stripping silences, repairing audio, generating captions — is untouched. Some of it is now a disclosure obligation. On 2 August 2026 that line started running straight through your timeline. One 5-minute drill a day on both halves.

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The Date

0 August 2026

Article 50 of the AI Act became applicable. Your timeline is in scope.

Deployers who use AI to create content resembling real people, places or events must disclose it — whether or not deception was intended. Providers of generative systems must mark synthetic outputs so they are machine-detectable.

Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 50, applying from 2 August 2026.

The Reach

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of organisations checking their AI Act obligations are caught by the transparency rules.

Second only to AI literacy as a compliance trigger, and it catches organisations with no high-risk AI at all — because it applies to what the content is, not how important the system is.

Source: EU AI Act Compliance Checker data, Future of Life Institute, May 2026.

The Line

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situations trigger the rules — and two of them describe ordinary video work.

Generating synthetic content, and creating content that resembles real people or events. But systems performing only assistive standard editing, which do not substantially alter the content, sit outside. The line now runs through your timeline.

Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 50.

The plan is simple.

No course platform. No 6-hour videos. A daily drill you run in any AI assistant — built around real footage and real deliverables, and around the line between assisting an edit and generating one.

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Commit

Sign the challenge below. You'll get Day 1 immediately and one short email per day — the lesson, the reason, and a copy-paste prompt.

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5 minutes a day

Run the day's prompt, see the result, done. Miss a day? Nothing breaks — the challenge is 30 days of reps, not a guilt machine.

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Graduate

Finish all 30 drills, pass a short final check, and claim your Zekai Challenge Certificate — ready for your LinkedIn profile.

Your 30 days. Every one of them, mapped.

Four weeks, four escalations: foundations → the edit → the generated → the business. Day 1 is open right now — try it. The rest unlock one per day after you sign the challenge, because mastery is built on daily reps, not binge-reading.

Day 30 has a trophy.

Finish the challenge and earn the Zekai Certificate of Completion — proof you didn’t just read about AI, you practised it for a month. Type your name. Go on.

Certificate of completion of an educational challenge — not a professional certification and not issued by any industry body. But it looks good on LinkedIn.

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Certificate of Completion

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30-Day AI Challenge · Video & Production Edition

has completed thirty consecutive AI drills and is hereby recognised as an AI-literate video professional.

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Verified completion
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30 days. 5 minutes a day. The half of this craft that is not being commoditised.

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Questions before you start

Is this really free?
Yes. Zekai is an independent AI tools directory — the challenge is how we introduce people to the tools we test. Some tool pages contain affiliate links; the challenge itself costs nothing and requires no purchase.
Does the AI Act really apply to me? I just edit video.
Possibly, and that is exactly why day 6 exists. Article 50 of the EU AI Act became applicable on 2 August 2026. If you deploy AI to create a deepfake — generated or manipulated image, audio or video resembling real people, places or events that would falsely appear authentic — you have a disclosure obligation, whether or not you intended to deceive. But there is a carve-out for systems performing only an assistive function for standard editing, or which do not substantially alter the content. Removing filler words is not the same as generating a person. Day 6 has you sort your own toolkit against that line.
So I can’t use AI for anything?
You can use it for most of what you already do. Weeks 2 sits almost entirely on the assistive side — silence and filler removal, audio repair, captions, transcription, grading assistance, delivery conversion. Week 3 is about the genuinely generative work and where disclosure begins. The point of the edition is not to avoid AI, it is to know which side of the line each step sits on.
What about generated b-roll and fantastical shots?
They are treated differently, and day 15 works through it. The definition turns on resemblance and apparent authenticity, and published guidance indicates that clearly fantastical or physically impossible content falls outside it. Generated footage of a plausible real street is a different question from a generated dragon, and both differ from a generated version of a real person.
Can I clone a voice or use a digital likeness?
Not without clear, informed, written permission for the specific use — and day 16 is dedicated to it. Someone agreeing to be filmed is not the same as agreeing to be synthesised, reused in another context, or made to say something they never said. The day also asks what you should refuse to do even with permission, which is a question worth answering honestly.
Why can’t I see all 30 drills at once?
Because binge-reading builds nothing. The challenge unlocks one drill per day from the day you sign — the way any skill gets built: daily reps. Day 1 is open right now so you can try it before committing.
Do I need any AI experience?
Zero. Day 1 assumes you have never written a deliberate prompt. By day 5 you will be building a paper edit from a transcript instead of scrubbing through rushes looking for the bit you remember.
What if I miss a day?
Life happens, and so does a delivery week. The challenge is sequential, not strict-daily. Pick up where you left off; the certificate cares that you finish all 30, not that you were perfect.
I work in a different profession. Is there a challenge for that?
This is the Video & Production Edition. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, teachers, marketers, students, real estate agents, HR, customer support, finance, personal productivity, compliance, farming, hospitality and energy are already running theirs, with more coming. Sign up and we’ll tell you when yours goes live.