Opinion Will the Movie and TV Industry Soon Be Replaced by AI-Generated Content ?

[Why did you]

I've been thinking about how fast AI is progressing when it comes to generating realistic video content. Right now, the quality of AI-generated scenes, characters, and even voices is already impressive—and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference from real footage. So it makes me wonder are we heading toward a future where traditional movie and TV production will become obsolete.
Could we see a full shift to AI-generated films and series within the next 5–10 years?

If that's the case, I imagine a new kind of production crew would emerge, made up of "prompt specialists" instead of camera operators, editors, or sound designers.
We might have roles like prompt director, prompt sound designer, or prompt editor, where the creative work is all about crafting the right instructions for AI models to generate specific parts of a film,like the visuals, soundtrack, dialogue, and effects.

What do you all think?

 

[koquerelle]

I will never watch anything created by AI. They stole from real artists and we should never forget that.

 

[Rygu]

I have no doubt AI could make better movies than the feces that has come out in the last 10 years

 

[Beechwood]

You would think so. I've seen Hollywood is trying to fight against AI. it is understandable. We have a big film industry here in America. They might succeed. They donate a lot of money to politicians, in particular Democrats.

Some country where making films isn't as common, AI would be a good inexpensive way to make a movie production.

 

[HereticBD]

Don't know if the human element will be replaced completely, but it will have a very large footprint in the industry. I've already seen commercials with some uncanny valley elements, that look AI generated.

Just think of the home entertainment capabilities when this becomes normalized, which, judging by the pace it's going at, will be in about 3-5 years. Ain't no movie gonna be able to compete with your own imagination, when you can just create entire movies and TV shows with a few prompts and see what the AI cooks up. People are going to be utterly obsessed with this technology.

This is one thing where Hollywood and the Porn industry should really be joining forces to fight against. The end is nigh...

 

[djacobox372]

I will never watch anything created by AI. They stole from real artists and we should never forget that.

How will you be able to verify what you are watching is AI created or not?

 

[ColemanwastheGOAT]

Only bad movies will be replaced by AI. Same way only bad art is being replaced.

Really what difference does it make if AI or a boardroom full of Disney execs make a movie? It's the same level of artistic integrity.

 

[Thrawn33]

Only bad movies will be replaced by AI. Same way only bad art is being replaced.

Really what difference does it make if AI or a boardroom full of Disney execs make a movie? It's the same level of artistic integrity.

Yep. Some of today's slop has less soul put into it by "humans" than an AI could.

 

[Xanzito]

It would be really sad indeed watching a movie in which the main star isn't an arrogant buffoon that tries to lecture me on affairs he knows nothing about in and off screen.

 

[NoSmilez]

We are already using CGI. I am assuming we will be watching projects that are augmented or crosschecked by AI. Everyone bitches about accuracies like children.

 

[Why did you]

Don't know if the human element will be replaced completely, but it will have a very large footprint in the industry. I've already seen commercials with some uncanny valley elements, that look AI generated.

Just think of the home entertainment capabilities when this becomes normalized, which, judging by the pace it's going at, will be in about 3-5 years. Ain't no movie gonna be able to compete with your own imagination, when you can just create entire movies and TV shows with a few prompts and see what the AI cooks up. People are going to be utterly obsessed with this technology.

This is one thing where Hollywood and the Porn industry should really be joining forces to fight against. The end is nigh...

Netflix AI Studio in a few years:
You log in, choose the genre (sci-fi, comedy, romantic thriller, porn(?)... ),
select your favorite actors (even ones who’ve been long gone), or generate AI actors,
pick a storyline style (slow burn, action-packed, emotional), and ,
netflix generates a full movie just for you in minutes.
Looks like a shift from consuming media to generating it.

 

[ModernMatt]

Where's Richard Hendricks and his new internet?

 

[aitkenmike]

Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[HereticBD]

Netflix AI Studio in a few years:
You log in, choose the genre (sci-fi, comedy, romantic thriller, porn(?)... ),
select your favorite actors (even ones who’ve been long gone), or generate AI actors,
pick a storyline style (slow burn, action-packed, emotional), and ,
netflix generates a full movie just for you in minutes.
Looks like a shift from consuming media to generating it.

Probably won't be that organized at first. That will come later, after the AI Wild West gets corporatized. It'll be a bunch of websites and programs at first, and you'll be able to create damn near anything you can think of. A court case here, a court case there, some mergers and acquisitions...and the shackles will come out. Like the internet, basically.

 

[Ramon Antonio]

I don’t like AI content for the most part but it would be hilarious to see the Hollywood meltdown.

 

[Squarechoke]

Netflix AI Studio in a few years:
You log in, choose the genre (sci-fi, comedy, romantic thriller, porn(?)... ),
select your favorite actors (even ones who’ve been long gone), or generate AI actors,
pick a storyline style (slow burn, action-packed, emotional), and ,
netflix generates a full movie just for you in minutes.
Looks like a shift from consuming media to generating it.

Quite a few of years probably because it will take an absurd amount of computing power to do that for individual users. We're in the stage where we are encouraged to not include words like "please" when asking an AI to do something because just for the AI to process that word from everyone that uses it takes up a lot of computing power.

 

[Prutfis]

Quite a few of years probably because it will take an absurd amount of computing power to do that for individual users. We're in the stage where we are encouraged to not include words like "please" when asking an AI to do something because just for the AI to process that word from everyone that uses it takes up a lot of computing power.

I recently read an article about the amount of power AI is already using in the worlds data centers. It was already a fairly large chunk and going to rise exponentially in the coming years.
A single word search uses like 10 times the computing power with AI as opposed to just searching on Google.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

I don't really care either way, I honestly can't remember when I like went to the cinema

 

[Squarechoke]

I recently read an article about the amount of power AI is already using in the worlds data centers. It was already a fairly large chunk and going to rise exponentially in the coming years.
A single word search uses like 10 times the computing power with AI as opposed to just searching on Google.

Yes, AI is very heavy on computing power so one of the most important areas of development is of course efficiency. Still, regardless of how well we optimize the AI models they will of course require a ton more computing power than we use now, as AI gets better and more widespread in use. An important factor is of course also to find new hardware architectures that can offer more headroom for improvement.

 

[Prutfis]

Yes, AI is very heavy on computing power so one of the most important areas of development is of course efficiency. Still, regardless of how well we optimize the AI models they will of course require a ton more computing power than we use now, as AI gets better and more widespread in use. An important factor is of course also to find new hardware architectures that can offer more headroom for improvement.

With current leaps in performance getting smaller and smaller for new generations we will need something different than what is currently being made.
Quantum chips seem to be moving slowly forward and they will be extremely powerful for AI development. Thats probably where we will see a pretty large jump in AI capabilities.