[saiya-jin]

It takes hundreds of man years of various to produce even cheap looking b-movie. A-level one have easily tens of thousands of man years overall, just watch the credits on some Marvel movie and put 3-18 months of effort there.

If you want to achieve almost the same for 0.1% of the cost with 1 very talented person and some computing power (or small team of talented writers/artists), it won't take long and Hollywood's business will collapse. You don't need to pay a cent to that old guy in the video.

Current A-listers will slowly fade while milking their residual fame, but more importantly there won't be a next generation in same way it was till now. A major shift indeed, bigger than Hollywood ever saw. If the quality is there it will be unstoppable and unions won't make any difference, next country with more liberal laws can render very same stuff.

[stephen_g]

The point still stands though - if people won’t pay money to see AI generated movies but will to see human made ones, then the market doesn’t collapse.

As the cost of producing it drops, AI content may come to be seen as worthless background noise to culture and verified human-made media valued.

[ildjarn]

If people cannot tell the difference will they care?

[incrudible]

I believe that the more the market will be flooded with AI content, the more the human touch will be valued.

[ildjarn]

Yeah why pay millions to an upcoming star when you can simply license Harrison ford (again) or some cheaper alternative.