Mark My Words

Oh it's coming, and it will happen even if nobody wants it. The movie industry has already gone downhill the past decade or so where most of the industry has sacrificed good storytelling, originality, and art for formulaic storytelling, overproduced effects, and oversaturation. Why? Because the former produces culture while the latter produces profits, and guess what the shareholders who own and control the industry want?

Just like how we went from having creative, original, and culture defining movies being produced on the regular to having nothing but endless sequels and remakes now, there will be another step in this process that further ensures profits, and that's automation.

Not only will AI cut corners and ensure mass production, but it could be a new revenue stream for some big company. I guarantee that over the next few years, we're going to have one of the tech giants like Amazon develop a powerful AI model that can generate full blown movies on its own. It'll generate the scripts, visuals, and audio, and the end product will only require review and maybe some minor tweaks.

They'll put out an experimental AI movie in theaters, and they'll pay all the major media outlets to hype it up and talk about it nonstop for months. The movie, regardless of quality, will generate profit because people will be curious, and these companies are going to use this success to start selling their AI models to movie production companies for rates much lower than it would cost to hire writing staff, production staff, actors, animators, and HR departments... and they'll all flock to it because all they'll see is $$$. It'll be the new standard for the medium whether people like it or not, kind of like microtransactions in video games.