“Man who owns a soybean farm says tofu is the future of food!”
Credit to the soybean salesman here that he at least includes artists in the equation, but we do not live in a world with a want for more video. If the amount of available video went up 100x tomorrow, no one would notice.
There will be 20 times as much shitty stuff to sift through to find the good ones.
We would need AI to do that 
Occupy the AI with sifting through it’s own crap pile, so it has less time left to make even more crap. It’s just like having teenagers in the house…
AI - you want to be more human like? Have fun with inheriting our chores.
We are actually already seeing that in many places. Have you noticed the articles that talk about content platforms being flooded with “AI Slop”?
On Quara it’s been so bad that many long-term users who hung out there and made some side-hustle cash have quit.
A recent survey found that 40% of Medium content is AI Slop. Confirmed by two independent audits coming to roughly the same number.
I believe Pinterest has the image version of the same problem.
Pretty much any platform where you can put content on and that has some form of monetization is getting overrun this way.
Wait until this hits YouTube and then rest of the video universe.
The response from the Medium CEO was: “Not a problem, as long as no humans see it.” ???
I agree with the Medium CEO. Youtube is rife with crypto nonsense, right wing psychos and low effort crap, but all it shows me is essays on video games and clips of late night shows. If a platform has systems to show users relevant content, it can tolerate near-infinite crap-scaling.
As for the assholes pouring AI slop onto platforms, they’re probably doing it because a youtube video said it would make them rich. See also self-publishing, drop shipping, and making popular videos (ironically). Get rich schemes for a world without a future.
Imagine what this little spot would have cost in budget and time to pull off traditionally:
I really do not think we are prepared for the world to come in the next five years.
Start thinking about you exit plan.
I don’t disagree that it’s hard to imagine the world in five years in optimistic terms, but what do you mean by exit plan? From this industry? Or from the world at large?
Industry.
Yeah, if this is massively effecting our jobs it’s going to be way more than just our industry that’s effected. We can’t all be plumbers just plumbing the drains of other plumbers.
I got food poisoning the other day. It yielded similar results for a very low cost.
The smugness and disrespect from Affleck reflects how disposable and worthless everybody is viewed as in this industry.
“knowing when to stop…”
Well if VFX is trouble so is he and anyone else.
Why do people always think it’s other guy, but they’re fine?
By the time VFX is fully replaceable, we’ll be at the ultimate personalization stage of film. Every viewer will just write a prompt ‘please make a movie with two stars doing xyz, and add this hook; keep it to 45min because I have to leave for a date.’ boom.
All you need is Sam Altman and some power plants. There won’t be any Hollywood, any actors, and post, sound design, etc.
It’s like movies coming out of a vending machine.
So theater is safe…
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The smugness and disrespect from Affleck reflects how disposable and worthless everybody is viewed as in this industry.
Not looking to swing below the belt, but given his vibes/mannerisms here and his history, seems like there’s more than just zeal for his craft running through his veins.
