[dmortin]

Maybe the main actors, the stars of the movies are safe for now. But background actors who just sit in the background or have some small extra role will be decimated, because those roles can be replaced with AI.

Since many actors start with small roles or background work, it will have an effect on the industry if entry jobs are eliminated.

In the long run even the main stars can get into trouble, because it may be true that AI won't be able to reproduce what they do, creating a new, creative scene, but most movies are trash even today, so if AI can make an average, good enough movie in the future which is cheap to generate, but people still watch it then the bottom of the industry will fall out, lots of people who work on movies will lose their jobs which can have a huge impact on the industry.

[sfmz]

80% as good for 1/10000th the price is quite the offer.

[K0balt]

100 percent as good for 1/100 the price is where celebrity acting is headed. They will take roles for exposure and make their money on their brand, like influencer cattle. It will be the only way to compete with the human wave of extremely talented but unknown talent that currently can’t get parts, but who can absolutely wreck an audience as a human canvas upon which to render a studio owned character likeness.

Ben went and drank his own celebrity exceptionalism cool-aid.