This is going to open new doors for future artists, at least in the near term.
I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their apartment on a tribal budget that rivals a big Hollywood production costing hundreds of mullions to produce today.
Right now you've got the writers striking, worried that the studios are going to replace them with AI, I think this is totally backwards, it's the studios who should be worried because the barriers to entry that protect them today are about to come crashing down.
I am already seeing a few people make short films using these tools. Right now anything "AI generated" has a certain novelty factor, like back in the day when 3D CGI was new and we were all rendering chrome 3d spheres and shiny red cubes and cylinders on black and white checkerboards, this phase is going to pass soon enough. Perhaps that surreal Midjourney glow will be part of 20's nostalgia in the decades to come. There's a whole new set of skills a new generation of artists are going to master and do things largely unimaginable a year or two ago. They're going to make art that expresses their own perspectives and ideas and not just what's currently allowed by the current consensus, just as the artists before them did.
> I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their apartment on a tribal budget that rivals a big Hollywood production costing hundreds of mullions to produce today.
This is definitely exciting to contemplate, but it's still quite tricky for the economics: Right now, the fact that you need 4000 people to make a blockbuster movie limits the number of movies being made, giving each movie enough of an audience (potentially) to make their money back.
Better tools will enable more awesome creatives to make content alone - but will there be enough eyeballs to consume that content, even if it's cheap to make?
We went through this with YouTube. The answer is yes. There's more than enough demand for stories that the current movie industry isn't interested in telling to sustain millions of cottage-industry movie or TV shows producers.
I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their apartment on a tribal budget that rivals a big Hollywood production costing hundreds of mullions to produce today.
Right now you've got the writers striking, worried that the studios are going to replace them with AI, I think this is totally backwards, it's the studios who should be worried because the barriers to entry that protect them today are about to come crashing down.
I am already seeing a few people make short films using these tools. Right now anything "AI generated" has a certain novelty factor, like back in the day when 3D CGI was new and we were all rendering chrome 3d spheres and shiny red cubes and cylinders on black and white checkerboards, this phase is going to pass soon enough. Perhaps that surreal Midjourney glow will be part of 20's nostalgia in the decades to come. There's a whole new set of skills a new generation of artists are going to master and do things largely unimaginable a year or two ago. They're going to make art that expresses their own perspectives and ideas and not just what's currently allowed by the current consensus, just as the artists before them did.