I strongly believe that AI will have massive impact on the film industry however it won't be because of a blackbox, text to video tool like Sora. VFX artists and studios still want a high level of control over the end product and unless it's very simple to tweak small details like the blur of an object in the background, or the particle physics of an explosion, then they wouldn't use it. What Hollywood needs are AI tools that can integrate with their existing workflows. I think Adobe is doing a pretty good job at this.
You're completely missing the point. Who cares what VFX artists and studios want if anyone with a small team can create high quality entertaining videos that millions of people would pay to watch? And if you think that's a bar too high for AI, then you haven't actually seen the quality of average videos and films generated these days.
I was specifically responding to this point which seemed to be the thesis of the parent commenter.
> I think we will see studios like ILM pivoting to AI in the near future. There's no need for 200 VFX artists when you can have 15 artists working with AI tooling
Yes this will bring the barrier to entry for small teams down significantly. However it's not going to replace the 200 people studios like ILM.
I believe this to be a failure of imagination. You're assuming Sora stays like this. Reality is we are on an exponential and it's just a matter of time. ILM will be the last to go but it'll eventually go, in the sense of having less humans needed to create the same output.
