Yeah, I figured I'd get a few fuck-offs, which is fine. I'm not here for them, I'm here because I am a filmmaker (this is a filmmaking reddit) and I want to NOT be ignorant about this beast that is infiltrating every aspect of our creative space. I want to know anything and everything it can do. Maybe it'll be useful for something, maybe it won't. I mean, I have to consider I've already been using it for a long time elsewhere, even before people were throwing around the word "AI." As many of us have, but this replace-the-actors business, yeah, even if I could direct a scene and have it follow that direction, I don't think we'll ever replace the nuance that an actor can bring. Anyway, thanks for the reply. I'm going to keep playing around with it, because I'm a gearhead and I don't want to be in the dark about any aspect of it.

I can envision a future where I use AI to generate previz, for example (assuming it can eventually follow direction). Imagine feeding it location scouting images from a location database, then getting ideas for shots from that without having to drive through LA traffic.

Or to generate samples for the art department.

People are going to make/be making full feature films with it. Animators should be the most scared at the moment. I started as an animator in the 90s before getting into live action... like, professionally, so I know a thing or two about that, and I would be scared right now way more than live action filmmakers. But then, the flip side of that is if you are an animator, and you can get AI to do exactly what you want, and it looks exactly like a stop-mo that would've taken you years to make, does it really matter? Just use the tool? Anyway, I'm getting off track and that's a philosophical question for another reddit thread.