Comment by vl
2 days ago
Everything professionally produced you currently see uses a lot of CGI, and you can’t even tell.
Essentially what they are doing is cheaper, more accessible CGI. And in the same way at it is now, you are not going to be able to tell it was used in expensive productions and will be able to see it in the cheap productions.
As an ex VFX infra guy, I can totally tell.
But to your point, if we take all of TV production world wide I doubt thats going to add up to 100 billion spent on set extension/characters/de-aging/fuckit fix it in post. And thats keeping spend at the same rate. (not to mention the recent peak spend on TV)
For openAI to make money it has to be an order of magnitude cheaper, quicker and quality, and be the lead so that people spend AI bucks with them. Rather than having a VFX company tune an opensource/weights model.