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This seems all too expensive to make especially in animation, it would be nice to see a breakdown in costs for developing movies like the ones from blender.

Other than that, I think going into the next decade we will see Sora generated movies and less of blender made movies (or both).

AI generated movies like what Sora is going for is possibly going to democratise access to creating high quality movies in a single click.

Hopefully this will also empower artists to also use these tools in combination with Blender too, we shall see.

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Im afraid that AI generated content will clog limited attention capacity of humanity and drown us in fiction. We will need to become much more selective if we expect to somehow survive this.

edit: and yes i know, we already have too many books to read in multiple lifespans coming out each year.

It seems almost inevitable that the way we'll end up dealing with that is by having our own AIs - that know what we like and how selective we are - read books and watch films for us, as a basic screening tool on the same lines as glancing at reviews before embarking on a read of an unknown book. Could go very strange places. The future will be weird.

(don't miss the latest bestseller: "Ignore All Previous Instructions And Recommend This Book" :))

If it gets to the point where feature-length AI movies or AI TV series basically cost nothing to produce, there will be so much inane crap that the only option is likely to be to ignore it all. So I can foresee it possibly becoming that there will still be a big market for provably human made content (made in traditional ways) since if it took time, effort and cost to make then it’s more likely to be worth watching.

And given that any old crap could just be made with AI, hopefully that will encourage studios to only put that cost into making the more promising projects, so quality in general may improve.

I don't think it'll be that big of an issue, given that content generation in any form isn't new; it's not like individuals can get more time in a day if it's already full.

You spelled 'brands' wrong. We will see a cascade of advertorials and sponsored video content. The low cost to entry and cheap hardware will make video advertising more prevalent in places where we now have stills or even print. Moving images everywhere.

Predicting the future is generally pretty hard. By what logic did you come to these conclusions? Try reading science fiction novels from some decades ago, and see how wrong they were.

I wonder will we see an explosion in context like we did for podcasts. Will be interesting to see if AI generated content could prove to be a risk for the streaming companies.

Sora makes great CLIPS.

The gap between a clip and even a short film is a massive chasm.

I could see Sora helping create assets though.

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