A combination of millions of people with production skills in California, and a huge domestic market able to spend billions has fuelled one of America’s biggest exports - TV & Movies. They’re not the biggest exports in dollar amounts, petroleum brings in almost 50 times more, but they give America something else apart from money - soft power via an outsized place in global cultural consciousness.
What happens when that sharply recedes? Soft power isn’t as easily counted as the size of aircraft carriers or the number of missiles, but its effects are real.
If you look at Sora now, it seems obvious within a couple of years it will be able to produce TV and movies, indistinguishable from today’s human produced ones, entirely with AI. I’m sure good human storytelling will still command attention. However shows like “Game of Thrones” that HBO spent over a billion to make, will be able to be produced by AI alone.
I haven’t looked at sora but I hear good things. Even still though, as someone who works in AI, the outcome you get is only as good as the data you put in for training and there just isn’t enough yet. Even if there were, people are super sensitive to plot holes and inconsistencies. Though, you might be able to get Michael Bay to retire ;).
I wish. They seem to be everywhere