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People have been able to easily make their own TV and Movies since consumer-grade videotape cameras became affordable. When was the last time you willingly sat down and watched amateur direct-to-video media that wasn't porn?
That's missing the point. Yes, you could have made a version of Game of Thrones with a smartphone & your friends in costumes made from thrift store clothes, but there's a reason everyone wants the one HBO spent a billion dollars to make. Now (or very soon) that advantage will disappear.
With generative video, such as Sora is demonstrating, everyone will be able to make the same standards as Hollywood. Its financial and skills clout won't count for anything, or confer any advantages any more.
We know so little about how Sora works I'm reluctant to assume it will get better. It could be that it fundamentally isn't easy to force it to render a specific person twice, for example. It definitely has a limitation with panning back to the same stuff.
Otherwise, yeah. I'm not sure why this is controversial. I guess most people here think only Americans can direct or edit? Like, statistically, there's bound to be a Speilberg born in a slum somewhere.