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by hnlmorg 899 days ago
I don't think AI-generated, personalised, movies would displace the market either. At least not in the forceable future. However to play devils advocate, there is a precedence for personalised stories that are hugely popular: gaming.

Maybe one day in the future, movies become a bit more like gaming. Kind of like "holo-novels" in Star Trek, where the story does adapt to suit the individual.

This isn't going to happen in the next 10 years though. Even technology aside, the various Hollywood unions wouldn't allow it.

If you look at the last big shift in the way society consumed content (from CDs to streaming) it took decades from the invention of Napster before anything like Spotify was successful. And that wasn't because the general public was slow to adopt. It was purely because distributors dragged their heals.