[gen3]

100% agree, the background replace that puts the guy into a stadium would be fully usable as a cut in a movie/tv show, and the background is believable enough that no one would bat an eye. If you use it properly, I expect a quality uplift on indie films/shorts. Your limit is your creativity

[jeltz]

I personally expect a decrease in quality. Without limits people tend to get less creative. Sure, there is some balance here in that tools also enable new things to be done which are not possible without tools but working around limits has often inspired some of the most creative works.

[amelius]

I don't think that is necessarily true. Right now movies are so expensive that they can be created only by a few handfuls of people. But those people might not be the most creative people around. If thousands of people can create movies, we might find out that some people we didn't know of are far more creative.

Also "creation by committee" isn't a thing when somebody can produce a movie in their basement.

Anyway, I look forward to people using this tech to create alternative endings of existing movies.

[alickz]

> Without limits people tend to get less creative

But lowering those limits allows for more people to get creative

How many beautiful stories never left their author's head because their author couldn't afford it? Either the monetary cost or the opportunity cost

Considering how many movies come from one place in one country (Hollywood), we haven't even scratched the surface of human creativity

[fragmede]

And without being forced to interact with other people. The movie made by one creative and 100 automatons does not ai all compare to the one where there are multiple brilliant creatives butting heads and personalities and choosing never to work with each other again but the show must go on.

How many movie lines have been adlibbed but are absolute classics? Sonofabitch, he stole my line!

[golergka]

The era of easily available game engines have brought to live hundreds of thousands of garbage games, but that doesn't matter. What matters are hundreds of really innovative ones that we wouldn't get otherwise.

[bbqfog]

Using AI has all kinds of new and unusual limits. It's hard to get exactly what you want and you often get unexpected results along the way.

[mrandish]

> Your limit is your creativity

In the professional creative tools business, "Now the only limit is your creativity" has been a popular marketing tagline for decades, especially for products based on new enabling technologies. It's common enough that a wry corollary has developed in response, which goes: "Unfortunately, for a lot of people that's a pretty big limit."

[redundantly]

> Your limit is your creativity

And how many tokens you can afford.

[gen3]

You’re not wrong, but the comment somewhat misses the point. A shot like that would require you to rent a stadium (generally not cheap) along with paying for a believable number of extras. That would put the shot out of budget for most indie filmmakers. Spending $20 on tokens to get “good enough” is totally worth it, and allows you to get shots that were previously out of reach.