[superconduct123]

I'm conflicted though because on the flip side it could open up filmmaking to way more people who don't have the skills/money/time

Like what if any artist could make a whole movie by themself without needing millions of dollars or hundreds of people

Similar to how you used to need a huge studio full of equipment to record music and now someone in their bedroom with a DAW can do it

[thomastraum]

The point is by doing you become really good in creative fields. in any field. Prompting is not doing. What makes you a really good programmer? Writing code.

the pursuit of mastery is at the essence of any craft.

[Zelphyr]

I can't help but worry that this will make it too easy to create movies and the product will be of much lower quality. There is precedence here in the music industry. A recent report came out that said that about 70% of music sales was catalog music, implying that people are buying less new music than old. I personally feel that's because the new music just isn't very good and one of the reasons is, it's too easy to make and distribute music now.

[Solvency]

That is a ridiculous take. Look at the absolute SEA of bottom-barrel content flooding every single streaming platform. For people at the top of the studio system, they are already living out their AI power trips, just in the meatspace.

The entire industry is already turning out terrible shit, but doing it by wasting hundreds of thousands of actors, production teams, and studio dollars in order to churn out that nonsense.

Meanwhile, there are millions of latent storytellers, who, for whatever reason (but primarily: not born into extreme wealth and nepotistic connections) could never express their ideas in motion/cinema at such ambitious scales.

By putting this power in the hands of actually talented writers and storytellers, you create a completely new market of potentially incredible works of art.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Sure. But you have to admit that you also create a new market of low effort garbage art. The question is which is bigger, and where the money will ultimately go.

[chefandy]

"Things are already bad. How could you be mad about making it much easier to make things worse? Quality isn't compatible with today's business ambitions."

[gcanko]

I think an important skill in the future would be just having good ideas. That's going to differentiate the winners from the losers