Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

Scope of AI in Film and Video

• Many agree current generative tools are far from replacing top-tier filmmaking, especially for long, coherent, visually precise work.
• Several expect AI to soon handle “good enough” content: formulaic movies, remixes of existing shows, or cheap direct‑to‑streaming material.
• Some foresee personalized or interactive media (e.g., “new episode in style of X,” alternate endings, viewer-inserted characters) once tools mature.

AI vs. Human Creativity

• One camp argues art is fundamentally communication between human minds; models lack lived experience, emotion, and intent, so they can only remix, not originate.
• They describe LLM text as statistically predictable, emotionally hollow, and inattentive to reader/viewer impact; useful as “washing machines for information,” not as creative agents.
• Others counter that much human output is already derivative, and AI can participate in the same selection and feedback processes that create “great” works over time.
• Debate persists over whether anything humans do artistically is in principle unmodelable, or whether confidence in human uniqueness is misplaced.

Technical Limits and Tooling

• Commenters from visual domains stress that high‑end film requires thousands of tightly controlled artistic decisions per shot; current models are imprecise, raster‑only, and bad at iteration and consistency.
• Example given: a studio tried replacing concept artists with “prompt engineers” and reverted after poor, incoherent results that were hard to refine.
• Others highlight strong progress in coding assistants, image and video generation, and expect similar leaps in narrative and cinematic coherence.

Jobs: Actors, VFX, and Career Ladders

• Many think background actors, extras, and routine VFX/cleanup work are at high risk; entry‑level pathways into those fields may vanish.
• Opinions diverge on lead actors: some think they’re uniquely safe; others predict deepfake‑style character models and cheaper unknown performers will erode celebrity economics.
• Several expect VFX and related crafts to shrink or radically change, with smaller teams using AI to achieve what once took large studios.

Audience Taste and “Slop”

• Multiple comments note that audiences already tolerate (and often prefer) formulaic, low‑effort blockbusters and short‑form “content.”
• Some warn that cheaper AI production could flood the market with interchangeable media, pushing truly novel, human‑driven work into smaller niches or live performance.