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.
> 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.