> The future I'm describing rings true for many, though some have told me that they don't believe that viewers want to see AI-generated images, or see themselve

> The future I'm describing rings true for many, though some have told me that they don't believe that viewers want to see AI-generated images, or see themselves in AI films, or watch regurgitations of past films. I believe they are wrong: Viewers have already been conditioned for AI film, because we have gotten away from being fully human. Well, yes. I can't watch most new movies anymore, because the abuse of visible CGI breaks the charm completely and throws me out of the story (when there is one, which is not often). But people seem to be happy with all those superhero movies? And since they are, why not make them entirely with machines? What I think (hope) will happen is that there will be a kind of schism; mainstream will go full-AI like the author describes -- that's just inevitable, the convenience and economies of scale are just to great for an industry to ignore. And then there will be a resurgence of small-scale indie productions, almost home-made, that a small number of people will share by word of mouth. Fast food didn't kill fine dining; there's an argument to be made that one couldn't exist without the other.