You're forgetting how fast it could make them.

Churn out 10 episodes, throw it in your streaming site. If people dont like it, stop making it. If it takes people 3 years to like it, roll out season 2.

It would be the "shotgun approach". Throw out 20 shows and see what works.

That doesn’t make any sense. Why would a studio hire a 3rd party when they can do it all in house?

Can you also put it on TV and get the revenue for it yourself?

Why would providers pay for that instead of doing it themselves? The AI would already be scouring the internet to see what it should make. If anything gains traction it would just make its own.

And why do you think the AI will be cheap enough that any random person can use it?

If it's available for "free" it's because they need people to train it.

I'm starting to think you have no idea what you're talking about

Sure they can! It's possible it would make animation more accessible. That does not mean it would allow more people to earn a living creating animated content, or earn more money. More content simply devalues the content. Also, how many people (artists, animators) can afford to spend the time to develop a fully finished product without any pre-arranged distribution or guaranteed value?

I can see where you're going with this. The argument most people have is that AI will reduce the need for humans but they fail to consider the possibility that instead it might instead simply increase the output of humans.

So far, in my line of work as a Web programmer, AI already plays a role in allowing me to create more code in less time. In practice this makes me feel more productive rather than redundant.

When applied to animation, I imagine this will allow both the amateur to produce more (the memes will get better) and the production capacity of professionals will increase (more TV, movies, etc). Extrapolating that, I fear for the writing room because they're going to have one hell of a job making sure the machine produces anything more valuable than complete nonsense :p

Those techniques have already been taught to the AI. I’m using such tools right now. It’s still rough, but I have no doubt they’ll improve them greatly soon. We’re not quite at the point I’m describing but I think it’s coming soon.

I think what you’re missing is how do you drive the AI? It’s still a tool. A piece of software. You have to tell it what to do. And in order to tell it what to do, you need to know what you’re looking for.

Like technically speaking anyone can paint. Just take a brush and some oils and spread it on the canvas. But that won’t be very good. So you need to spend decades learning all sorts of art topics.

Now, an AI already knows that stuff. So you could technically tell it to just make you a painting. And for sure it’ll spit out a better painting than what you as an unskilled person can produce. And I’m sure it’ll look awesome to you. But how will you gauge if it’s actually good? You don’t know anything about painting. For all you know this could be trash.

Now if all you’re doing is making stuff for self-expression and just to make stuff then who cares. Knock yourself out.

But if you’re making a movie, or a video-game, or a comic book, etc, then it has to actually be good. People need to want to watch it. If you don’t know what you’re doing then all you’ll get is a messy pile that nobody wants to watch.

This happens all the time now too. They take some random director and producer that don’t know wtf they’re doing, give them a budget, and they make some POS movie that looks nice but falls completely flat. Then it fails at the box office, and they complain that the “haters” ruined it. No, they made a shit movie/game/whatever.

It’ll be the same thing here.

I’m not sure what you mean by this exactly.

What I’m saying is that eventually you’ll get tools powerful enough that an artist would be able to do several jobs. Instead of the job being so tedious that you need a separate artist for each part, one artist will be able to tackle the whole thing.

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