“Craftsmanship is knowing how to work, art is knowing when to stop,” Ben added. “I think knowing when to stop is going to be a very difficult thing for AI to learn because it’s taste. Also; lack of consistency, lack of controls, lack of quality.”
He then acknowledged that some areas of filmmaking will be impacted much sooner than actors and writers, admitting: “I wouldn’t like to be in the visual effects business, they’re in trouble because what costs a lot of money is now going to cost a lot less. It’s going to hammer that space, and it already [has].”
“But it’s not going to replace human beings making films,” Ben reiterated. “It may make your background more convincing, it can change the color of your shirt, it can fix mistakes that you’ve made. You might be able to get two seasons of House of the Dragon in a year instead of one, and if that happens, according to macroeconomics in cultures where they’re basically competing, what should happen is, with the same demand, and the same span, they should just make more shows.”
“Now you can just watch more episodes, and eventually, AI will allow you to ask for your own episode of Succession,” Ben went on. “Where you can say: ‘I’ll pay $30, and you can make me a 45-minute episode where Kendall gets the company and runs off and has an affair with Stewy, and it’ll do it. And it’ll be a little janky and a little bit weird, but it’ll know those actors, and it will remix it.”