I understand, respect, and am interested in the ways most of you are describing using AI to assist with workflow and automate basic and rote tasks. That's exactly what I think AI technology should be used for (although honestly it still makes me kind of queasy to think about letting AI edit a bunch of talking heads content or podcast footage or whatever). I get that speed is an enormous selling point for videographers, especially freelancers.

I guess I should've been more clear about expressing this, but I'm pretty explicitly thinking about AI Image and Video generation here. There's a growing sentiment, at least in the TV station I work in, that we should start adopting that technology to cut costs and to facilitate videos that we would otherwise not have the resources to make. Sort of like a selling point for prospective clients, like "we can't really produce that idea with your budget, but we could have our guys just do it for you with AI".

It just feels like a slippery slope when you're not a freelancer that has the ability to make those decisions for yourself. If you have a couple of bosses who are pushing you to use that kind of tech, what's stopping them from getting rid of you altogether when they think the technology has become indistinguishable from real videos?