> this is one of the places I feel generative AI can do a lot of good. It can get rid of the routine VFX like changing an actors pant etc that VFX artists are inundated with and leave only the artistic work for VFX artists which is hopefully not as taxing and not as requiring of crunch

And the last decades' exponential increases in productivity could have lead to keynes' famous 15 hour workweek - except they didn't.

Instead, productivity got directed to more output and more profit and working hours stayed the same if not increased.

As such, I'm more predicting this will simply lead to less VFX artists being employed by the studios than for there being a substantial improvement in working conditions.