Comment by terribleperson

While I am concerned about the rm -rf possibility and that's what my initial comment was about, it's not the only concern. I'm also concerned ChatGPT will return a ffmpeg command that is functional but suboptimal, creating a product that's subtly wrong. For example, a slideshow that's subtly misordered, a video file that's 10x the size it needs to be, compromised audio quality, or a video that runs fine on my PC but has poor portability (video players can be surprisingly finicky). When I look up ffmpeg commands on stackexchange, there's always feedback on any suggested command that explains what's wrong with it and what a better solution is. Often the first solution will work, but maybe only with certain ffmpeg distributions or there are major caveats to the result.

I do appreciate the container solution, since it's generalizable to other ai-powered tools in this class.