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- Hollywood creative is an oxymoron.by yomismoaqui
- No they are not. They are helping rip off delusional investors who think this will amount to more than slop.by borzi
- But consumers eat up the slop?
- Hollywood has managed to sell a lot of derivative, human made slop in the past.
It might not reach the quality threshold where they can make money off it but would I be willing to bet that it can't? Probably not.
If it turns out you can one day make a "big budget" Hollywood movie for $20k in tokens then I don't see the point in having film studios.
by pydry - They are only talking about production, productivity, quantity, nothing else. The amount of produced content hasn't been in short supply. There is no talk about consumption. Who is going to consume all this content, _even_ if it somehow turns out good? If it's cheap and easily producible, then it's worthless as consumption item.by pllbnk
- What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions
ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly
anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly?
the question is can it do it perfectly with just a dozen episodes? or does three dozen make it better?
because once that happens, that's all the networks will pay for, after all they are only about the commercials they can insert into content regardless of source
and yes viewers will eventually accept it the same way they won't quit X or meta, etc. regardless of how horrible they become or the sub-human behavior of the owners
by ck2 - TOS was really cringe and is really out of date. Fun fact the first season of TNG they reworked TOS scripts and it was too wacky. Surprised they got a second season based on season 1 alone.
- Example see the Pine Drama shorts on Tim Tok. 5 sec shots with inconsistencies strong together into a 30 sec clip that is 1 part of 56.by wombatpm
- Why wouldn't the users just generate it themselves?by WarmWash
- I don't think it will ever be able to make perfect extensions, because there is no perfect extension. Part of creative work is human imperfections. Part of me being invested in a series is because I know it will end at some point.
If there's infinite star trek episodes, I don't care to watch it. I'd rather spin a fidget spinner instead.
- If you haven't been following the current explosion of video gen models, including all the content you see on social media, you should pay attention.
I have no doubt in my mind that right now, in August of 2026, given a couple of weeks, an amateur with a high-end last-gen GPU or somebody with maybe a thousand bucks worth of AI credits, given a good amount of exploration/tinkering to fill the gaps that GenAI cannot currently do, (which is storyboarding, screenwriting, characters, and all the actual creative stuff), can crank out a high quality 1h+ feature film with only minor uncanny artifacts.
The reason why this isn't happening en masse right now is that most creatives are probably not focused on generating feature films, but rather content that's more digestible by social media users.
I would expect to start seeing a LOT of development in the upcoming months as some form of commodification where generated content can be both high quality and tailored to the user.
by lxe - I for one greatly enjoy the youtube channel THE ARCHIVE INBETWEEN ... Mind bending stuffby unixhero
- If I'm understanding correctly. Replacing low budget advertising slop is the priority over replacing $100m movie budgets simply because they haven't gotten around to the latter yet. The capabilities are definitely there for the latter, just no one's bothering. Okay.
- No job is forever. Tomorrow isn’t promised, and automation already did this—albeit more slowly—throughout the second half of the 20th century. Some people watched their jobs disappear and accepted that they’d become obsolete. Plenty of others pivoted.
The counterargument today is that we can pivot much faster. I’m typing this on a $2,000 Mac that can run Blender, render scenes, write code, edit video, and access tools that would have required a studio or a room full of specialized hardware not that long ago.
GenAI is empowering people to do things they simply could not do before. It’s here. The interesting question is: what are you going to do with it?
I think movie production may be approaching its YouTube moment. If the barriers to making something collapse, then make something worth watching. I’d rather see a small team with an actual idea than another $300 million spider man multiverse hot garbage sequel or guardians of the slop 600 assembled by committee, approved by a board after a slide deck, and polished into expensive slop.
by mrdootdoot - All I want is Seinfeld Foreverby unixhero
- Then why isn’t there even one good, 2-minute video produced with AI yet? Can you share one?
A few months ago, Coca Cola couldn’t even make a good 1 minute commercial with millions of dollars and a whole team of video producers and editors. It ended up just being a montage of 5 second clips of animals smiling at Coca Cola trucks.
by an0malous - There’s a technology fundamental driving the short form aspect too, current video models are all trained on <500 frame sequences and struggle to generate long shots. There are a lot of attempts in the literature to improve cross-generation coherence but there needs to be an architectural breakthrough or significant scaling improvement before longer continuous shots are practical. So you’d be making a really ADD feature film at the moment.by bri3d
- > I have no doubt in my mind that right now [...] an amateur with a high-end last-gen GPU or somebody with maybe a thousand bucks worth of AI credits [...] can crank out a high quality 1h+ feature film with only minor uncanny artifacts.
Then why are there no examples of this? There aren't even examples of steps towards it--the half hour film that's nearly production quality, etc.
by Planktonne - This is how my job in tech is right now. Execs asking us to build systems and agents and subagents so they can just input figma designs and their flawed requirements and get rid of all labor. How does a person not hate themselves doing this work that's effectively existential suicide? Every word into claude is another word of my career's death note.by miltonlost
- > How does a person not hate themselves doing this work that's effectively existential suicide?
Cult worship of AI CEOs and sublimating one's own hatred of self onto his fellow workers.
by dan_ggggg - we have to move up the stack.by unified101
- Hollywood movies have become indistinguishable from each other before "AI" so I doubt anyone will notice.by nottorp
- Seriously. The median number of new movies I watch each year has fallen to zero. And if I want to watch one, I just make some popcorn and watch the preview. Big time-saver.by beej71
- The movie "Singing in the rain" was about the job Apocalypse of sound technology that threw silent film actors and workers into the street, unemployed and hungry.
All those silent film era jobs were lost to the "talkies".
Hollywood not only survived, it expanded.
It is a truism in Hollywood that people always see good movies in any economy. If the industry is contracting maybe they're making bad movies no one wants to see.
AI won't change that at all.
by newsomix9xl - I think you are saying people whose jobs AI can do are the silent film actors... Who are the "talkie" actors in this analogy; the people whose jobs AI won't take over?by esafak
- Southern California Edison utility district famously required their office staff to train offshored support staff, and then did replace those office staff with the newly trained offshore workers
Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements - Computerworld 2015 -- The incident sparked legislative interest in California, with lawmakers proposing bills to restrict utilities from outsourcing critical infrastructure work and prompting at least 11 U.S. senators to request federal investigations into the use of H-1B visas in such outsourcing deals.
by mistrial9 - by teddyh