Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

If you haven't been following the current explosion of video gen models, including all the content you see on social media, you should pay attention.

I have no doubt in my mind that right now, in August of 2026, given a couple of weeks, an amateur with a high-end last-gen GPU or somebody with maybe a thousand bucks worth of AI credits, given a good amount of exploration/tinkering to fill the gaps that GenAI cannot currently do, (which is storyboarding, screenwriting, characters, and all the actual creative stuff), can crank out a high quality 1h+ feature film with only minor uncanny artifacts.

The reason why this isn't happening en masse right now is that most creatives are probably not focused on generating feature films, but rather content that's more digestible by social media users.

I would expect to start seeing a LOT of development in the upcoming months as some form of commodification where generated content can be both high quality and tailored to the user.

Southern California Edison utility district famously required their office staff to train offshored support staff, and then did replace those office staff with the newly trained offshore workers

Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements - Computerworld 2015 -- The incident sparked legislative interest in California, with lawmakers proposing bills to restrict utilities from outsourcing critical infrastructure work and prompting at least 11 U.S. senators to request federal investigations into the use of H-1B visas in such outsourcing deals.

No they are not. They are helping rip off delusional investors who think this will amount to more than slop.

What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions

ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly

anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly?

the question is can it do it perfectly with just a dozen episodes? or does three dozen make it better?

because once that happens, that's all the networks will pay for, after all they are only about the commercials they can insert into content regardless of source

and yes viewers will eventually accept it the same way they won't quit X or meta, etc. regardless of how horrible they become or the sub-human behavior of the owners