Dark days ahead for creative industries?

Wow, AI has come a long way and now generative AI is creating some truly impressive footage.

Check out this story from Arstechnica complete with samples of the footage being generated by an OpeAI system called Sora.

There may always be a place for the traditional industry but I'm pretty sure that once such works are allowed to be copyrighted, there'll be a huge shift towards this sort of thing and away from cameras, editors, VFX and compositing in the traditional way.

Imagine how much cheaper it was to create that drone-type footage of a town in the Old West (in the Arstechnica story) than it would have been to build a set and hire a drone operator for the job.

The advertising industry will almost certainly jump at this -- seizing the opportunity to slash costs to a tiny fraction of what it currently takes to produce a commercial for TV/web.

Where do we go from here guys?

Calm down. Relax.

AI is nothing to be alarmed at. It's just computer algorithms. It is nothing new. The media is always hyping some crisis.