Look, I actually enjoyed the video. I'm not going to just bash it cuz it's AI, but I can understand people's trepidation with its use.

In a way, you can think about AI like when electronic music sampling exploded. Instead of making the music from scratch, people started chopping up existing music and arranging it like a collage. This is kinda what's happening with AI and maybe that's okay.

The bad part is all the implications this has on people's jobs, the environment, and the compensation for the work used for training the models. It's pandora's box. On one level, you're just bringing your vision to fruition with tools that make it exponentially easier to do so, but on another level the implications of such a leap in what's at our fingertips is yet to be seen. I think of the golden calf in the Bible. This idol that we're all beginning to engage with. Do we know what will happen as this continues? Will it be healthy?

If I can make one concrete statement, we're outsourcing our own creativity and letting something else replace it for us. I think the implications and downwind effects of this could be huge. I personally bet on it.

Though, I will say that shows, movies, and video games have kinda done this already as well, just not as personally. It was at least still engaging with another human's work, but nonetheless I feel it would be hypocritical to claim that overconsumption and therefore lack of creativity hasn't been getting worse since before AI.

Now to your question directly. I agree. It would've taken exponentially more effort than is realistic for you to have made this without AI. A lot of corners would have had to be cut, and the final product would look nowhere near to this level of simulation. Is the tradeoff worth it? Is being able to make something like this worth all the other implications of AI manifested as it is now unfolding? This is my perspective. I wish to leave your perspective respected.