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What If My Life Was a Prompt? Can Google’s Veo 3 steal cinema’s soul with Hollywood films? Will code outshine human art? @guardian @WIRED What’s your take? #AIFilmmaking bit.ly/3FnTssP

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@wesleyvissers_ Keep up the great work. Victory well deserved!

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Anyone else exhausted by fake AI clips and deepfakes everywhere? Tech’s incredible… until context gets stripped away and even honest work looks suspicious. Your face in an ad you never signed off on? That’s the real blackout in AI video ... confidence, not power. bit.ly/4rUUdwA

@ABAOProductions Promps can be used but ultimate play is manipulation by the pixel. A paint brush on a canvas will also give more control over a prompt. That said both can be useful

If you are a successful filmmaker or VFX artist spending your day shitting on AI users or Ai-generated content, I can’t say for sure what is going through your mind, but from the outside it looks like you feel threatened. Also if you are an AI user saying dumb shit like “VFX/Hollywood is dead,” I can’t say for sure what’s going through your mind, but from the outside, it looks like… not much. Yes, AI is here and it not going away. But the marketing teams behind this tech want you to believe it’s something it is not. They don’t want you to know that the more experience you have with traditional filmmaking methods, the better the results from the AI tools you will get. The hard truth is that the people who understand things like lighting, composition, animation, compositing, color theory, VFX, cameras, lenses, and blocking, have a vast advantage when using these tools - but that would never sell products to the masses. They need you to believe that you can easily replace talent and experience with the simple desire to create - and that’s just stupid.

Tbh prompts can allow an entry point for new and experienced creators. That said my belief is Hollywood and the next top tier films will win at the pixel level. Take an artist. Their advantage is their brush and not a language driven prompt. Content can be made both ways, but one offers more control.

Hollywood gatekeeping is dying. Very soon, blockbuster-level films will come from tiny teams of obsessed hobby directors armed with AI, taste, and zero permission. Big budgets won’t matter. Gatekeepers won’t matter.

The “Hollywood’s days are over” talk is overhyped. I also flagged this idea of actors licensing their likeness like royalty-free music ages ago. I believe Hollywood’s golden era will be won at the pixel level and not from templates. And no one’s talking about the crews who have propped up filmmaking for years. What about their longevity? Better tools, not replacements.

The only sane person in Hollywood right now talking some real talk.

Everyone's saying Hollywood is done because of AI. I say the next golden era is coming and will be won pixel by pixel. bit.ly/3Mkejko

Something is happening in Hollywood. The end of traditional stardom? Actors are turning into royalty-earning IP, just like top musicians with their catalogues. This could change everything for actor royalties. bit.ly/4aZ6JF0

"Who owns your AI video? You? The tool? Or nobody—until you prove it. 'I prompted it' many not hold up when someone re-cuts it with new voices or claims likeness. Proof > prompts. Post here - bit.ly/4rSh2jU

My prediction.... AI will improve dramatically and offer great assistance to creators, but only if it's trained exclusively on data with a proven origin trail from their own set work. Otherwise, we'll see a YouTuber's entire back catalog repurposed without permission, or worse, someone's kids' faces stolen and used in campaigns they never consented to. Its early days

Just wow. How can anyone argue that AI won't be the future of cinema at this point?

@patrickbetdavid Totally agree. Also people forget it’s not just a Hollywood problem. What happens when a YouTuber or podcaster wakes up to their entire catalogue cloned onto a fake AI avatar? If programs can borrow from Hollywood, anyone’s fair game.

This is just the beginning. But something tells me AI will eventually push people back toward real human interaction.

@THR So what happens when AI trains on a corporate video and someone decides to use the CEO's face and voice in another campaign? It's not just a Hollywood issue. Or a YouTuber's entire back catalogue is scraped and re-delivered with a new avatar's face?

Another week, another cacophony of discourse about whether AI-generated filmmaking is actually creativity, and whether creative people can still find a place in a marketplace where too many viewers are willing to settle for weightless visual slop. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-r…

@MattWalshBlog Deeper issue... who owns the IP for content generated from prompts? And what about YouTubers/podcasters spotting their back catalogues repurposed with AI avatars? That's a publicity rights and infringement nightmare and not just Hollywood's headache. Collision course ahead.

I don't understand how anyone can be impressed by this. Okay, wow, an algorithm spit out some images that look kind of real. Okay cool. The fundamental problem with AI content -- and why I will never be interested in an AI movie, no matter how realistic it looks -- is that I just have no interest in the stories that an algorithm tells. I don't want to watch an AI story any more than I want to sit around and listen to ChatGPT tell me about its hopes and dreams. If the story has no soul then it lacks the one and only thing that can make it worthwhile or interesting.

@nivleknasc Next one will be interesting ‘ Who Owns the IP, and How Do You Prove You Made It? ‘ - comes out Thursday

@nigelcamp thats awesome man. writing about AI right now is like documenting a revolution in real time — every week theres something new that wouldve been sci fi 6 months ago. looking forward to reading those articles 🔥

Seedance 2.0 blows up with hyper-real AI video. Hollywood calls foul on infringement. Meanwhile, a lot of training data comes from material that’s already online, and the rules around permission, opt-outs, and licensing are still being fought over. The uncomfortable question is whether your work could be used without you ever knowing. Think a YouTuber’s back catalogue, a campaign shoot made for a brand, or something personal you shared online that later gets pulled into a dataset. Consent? Disclosure? Read more here: bit.ly/4rquYlA

@nivleknasc I agree. I’ll be spending a lot of time on my site writing articles I hope will help people. You’ll see another 4 posts drop regarding AI over the next 4-5 weeks. It’s really sci fi atm.

@nigelcamp scary part is AI editing can reshape culture silently question isn't IF — it's who decides what's "acceptable" and what gets erased transparency standards needed ASAP or we're sleepwalking into invisible censorship

@nivleknasc And this comes next … well hopefully not nigelcamp.com/video-blog/ai-…

@nigelcamp 100%! YouTubers are the next wave for sure. imagine entire channels getting cloned overnight... the legal battles will be insane and probably take years to settle. wild times ahead

@JackKennedy It’s been interesting watching this all play out. Here's another angle on where ultra-realistic AI video gen like this could lead long-term bit.ly/4qCzvQm

Someone made a video of Eleven vs the Mind Flayer in Seedance 2.0. 🔥 Hollywoods days are numbered…

@tupacabra Here’s another angle for anyone interested - nigelcamp.com/video-blog/ai-…

"Ai is stealing from Hollywood!" Hollywood:

One thing people aren’t talking about… What happens when independent work is trained on, recycled, and used from hard-working creatives outside of Hollywood? Think YouTubers and their back catalogs, plus promos made for corporate clients by small production houses. It’s only a matter of time before someone sees their hard-earned efforts reproduced, shared… with no credit.

Why Hollywood Deserves Obsolescence: A Corrupt, Captive Industry: The collapse of the old studio model is not a tragedy but a necessary correction. Hollywood has long ceased to be a home for art and has become a propaganda arm for a corrupt, captured establishment. The studios, acting as middlemen, have systematically ruined beloved franchises—from Star Wars to Ghostbusters—by forcing insufferable, ideologically-driven narratives that disrespect the source material and alienate the core audience. This moral bankruptcy is systemic. The industry pushes harmful indoctrination and themes that conflict with traditional, pro-human values, creating a vast vacuum of demand for content that aligns with compelling, morally-grounded storytelling. The product is no longer entertainment but a tool for psychological manipulation. The result is an industry deserving of its fate. As one commentary on its decline starkly put it, "Hollywood is dead". The emotional and financial scaffolding that supported the old film business is gone, not just due to streaming, but due to a catastrophic loss of trust and artistic integrity. I'm rooting for Bytedance / Seedance!