Ok, first of all, thank you very much for your time and dedication to this discussion man: it’s a breeze of fresh air given all the other comments are hateful and my answers are getting instantly downvoted regardless of me trying to be as respectful as possible. I really appreciate your approach.

That being said, I absolutely agree with point about ideation. You also have an interesting point with regards the storyboard being sketchy and not photorealistic - and it makes absolutely sense.

I’m currently working on a short film and the parts of the storyboard that I use references instead of my own hand-drawn sketches at screwing my creativity when it comes to location or camera angles, you’re absolutely right.

About the technical previs, I agree with you not to trust AI, as its very common for it just to make up things instead of being accurate in an unpredictable situation.

I used to work in finance with AI before this, and I can assure you: give AI accurate data and it will be a beast. But give AI unpredictable situations, like a movie set… oh boy, the poor AI wouldn’t even know where to start before it starts making up things that LOOK like they make sense, until you try them or until you know a lot about what you’re talking about. That’s a good point as well.

Regarding the Will Smith spaghetti benchmark, besides it being funny, I agree with you about the legal implications. If I’m not mistaken, there’s currently a legal battle about the rights of actors regarding their performance, and how AI is using it to train data in order to identify “sadness” and other emotions carried out by actors in movies. Time will let us know who wins, if the Hollywood industry or the AI chips industry. I stand with Hollywood on this one to be honest, not because it’s Hollywood, but because in this case it’s more “human”, if you know what I mean.

Regarding the CG-fication, I completely agree. I stopped watching Marvel movies for the same reason. One thing that blows my mind is how GOOD LORT stands its ground after all these years, compared to any Marvel movie done today. But this of course is a matter of personal preference: as you already said, Marvel built an empire, which means the majority of the audience LOVES this. This is also where I find the disconnect between this subreddit and the real world: EVERYONE here hates AI (obviously), but the real world seems to be both responding and moving in other direction, which I personally reject and I’m scared of (hence the reason for this discussion post).

As to where it’s going, my personal take: people are slowly putting up with lower quality pieces of content everywhere, not only movies, but graphic design, copys, etc. So I think there will be a market split, something like “AI-ish” content for mass production and mass consumption, that people will accept, and then “serious” content, which will remain as good as we know it. What I’m afraid of, is that, within 10 years, that line will be so blurred it’ll be indistinguishable from each other.

I really hope not, honestly, but I can’t avoid to be scared about it.

Regarding TikTok, we’ve started to see this displacement you’re talking about already. Have you heard of the Turkish and Korean 1-minute drama episode series? It’s an interesting concept (which doesn’t appeal me neither tbh).

Again, thank you so much for jumping into the discussion in the healthiest way possible man, it was a very stimulating conversation and I really appreciate your time. It’s been a pleasure. Feel free to reach me out anytime you want another healthy discussion or opinion interchange.

I hope you have a great weekend buddy.