I've worked for almost 30 years in tv/film/commercial/sports/corporate/news/docs (you get the idea) in production sound. I also have a music recording studio background. I like most people thought AI quality to the level of taking jobs was decades away until the day Sora came out. Then I heard Suno as well and ya.... I'm really grateful I've been planning my exit for awhile but I'd honestly say 90% of my industry will be out of work in 3 years or at the very least be heavily affected by it income wise. I could go on for hours on specifics but ya in a nutshell while pretty much every industry is going to be destroyed by AGI in the coming years my industry is going to get rocked hard pretty early on. What's scary is every single freelancer I work with that I've had the opportunity to bring it up to them, every single one of them has completely ignored what I said and completely are in denial and putting their heads back in the sand. It's been a phenomenon to me how defensive people are when it comes to major changes.
Hollywood films are so formulaic now, AI might be an improvement on story-by-committee. But the number of award winning scripts that have been shelved over the decades is in the thousands. With the means of production in the hands of the writers to produce their scripts exactly as they imagined (for very little money); I'll gladly pay to watch them. I hope there's a special streaming service just for those films.
I do believe AI will offer a great improvement in filmmaking. But do you think the quality of the script alone is enough to generate a successful film? In other words, does it compensate for other equally important factors such as audience reception, production value, acting performances, marketing strategies, distribution channels?
Great video, Ahmad, very interesting!
Thanks a lot Josh!
I've worked for almost 30 years in tv/film/commercial/sports/corporate/news/docs (you get the idea) in production sound. I also have a music recording studio background. I like most people thought AI quality to the level of taking jobs was decades away until the day Sora came out. Then I heard Suno as well and ya.... I'm really grateful I've been planning my exit for awhile but I'd honestly say 90% of my industry will be out of work in 3 years or at the very least be heavily affected by it income wise. I could go on for hours on specifics but ya in a nutshell while pretty much every industry is going to be destroyed by AGI in the coming years my industry is going to get rocked hard pretty early on.
What's scary is every single freelancer I work with that I've had the opportunity to bring it up to them, every single one of them has completely ignored what I said and completely are in denial and putting their heads back in the sand. It's been a phenomenon to me how defensive people are when it comes to major changes.
But in that case, what do you think the work environment will look like in your field? What roles would humans play?
Hollywood films are so formulaic now, AI might be an improvement on story-by-committee. But the number of award winning scripts that have been shelved over the decades is in the thousands. With the means of production in the hands of the writers to produce their scripts exactly as they imagined (for very little money); I'll gladly pay to watch them. I hope there's a special streaming service just for those films.
I do believe AI will offer a great improvement in filmmaking. But do you think the quality of the script alone is enough to generate a successful film? In other words, does it compensate for other equally important factors such as audience reception, production value, acting performances, marketing strategies, distribution channels?