The ultimately reality of this that people will slowly come to understand is that they are automating thinking itself, this goes beyond any advancement we've seen in the past. Which means every time one of these guys says well now that 'novelists can just do their job better, in that they can use the tool to help plan out before they get to the stuff...' tomorrow the whole novelist will be automated. In the end it'll just be the ones with the capital and marvel licenses that are left standing while everyone tries to sell whatever they are doing to someone who no longer needs their service.
Imagine how portrait painters felt when photography was developed. I suspect we'll survive AI's impact on movies, music etc the same as we did with photography.
to me, the point of this tech is not to replace human creativity, but to give more creatives access to a market long dominated by money and connections. i expect a surge of creativity because of it.
Film is fundamentally different than something like painting and photography because of the amount of people and trades it employs. Creatives are a relatively small percentage of the filmmaking process. There are locations departments that employ scouts, PAs, ALMs, LMs, and administrators. There are rental companies that provide equipment like tents, heaters, carpets, chairs, and washrooms. Of course, there are camera operators (and camera equipment manufacturers and distributors), a huge transportation department, as well as craft services, grips, set dec., props, costumes, hair, and makeup that are all run as independent companies that include HR and management teams. You may have stunt and FX teams. A greens department and of course every production needs lighting and electrical. All of these are highly specialized skills and trades in and of themselves. Not to mention the schools and teachers that train people in these trades, and the local economic benefits that a large production can bring to a city or town. Yes, AI will break down barriers and empower aspiring filmmakers to bring their creations to life, but we can’t ignore that those barriers represent real people and skilled trades that have all contributed to every movie and TV show we’ve grown up with and loved.
@@wonmoreminute Great comment thanks. Yes my brother and co-founder is an AD, he works with all the people you mentioned on the daily. We'd never ignore them, we believe we are them. Today we try doing all the jobs above for our own film, we act and produce and are constantly learning new trades. All of us will have new tools to increase our range and work on more aspects of a film in the future with GenAI. We still need people with taste, and as the makeup department learns prompt engineering, they and everyone like them from the DP to the location scouts will be in higher demand as more entry-level people want to write and produce new movies. I believe the number of quality movies will go up 10X in the near future, employing more people in Hollywood careers than ever before, with more movies for us all to enjoy. -Russell
They felt bad and scared and secure. A piece of tech could do something many of them couldn't and or do something better, faster and cheaper. HOWEVER, the real difference is that no one confused that they were two different things. And at that time one was clearly an art from and another a utility. What this is today interms of generative art is beyond a thing that used your own skills to exist, but also a tool that full masquerades as any artform. From music to painting to drawing. Thus technically eliminating the need for whatever it's replacing full stop. There won't be two streams, certainly not with these developers going out of their to make it appear as real as possible, that is there is a tool that can now fabricate the art process videos. ergo, kinda neat, but kinda sad.
