I'm not going to waste your time giving you examples of how ridiculous Hollywood has become. You're likely one of the myriad of people who ever rarely visit the theater anymore as you've found very little reason to over the past few years. Like everyone else, you've made a few exceptions, but one thing has become increasingly clear; Hollywood has more or less lost its luster.
Hollywood is dead, and socio-political radicalism killed it. It's not like good movies or television shows can't be made, but the good stuff is the exception, not the rule. Many of these studios just choose not to, feeling like they're duty-bound to preach at you from atop a soapbox instead of creating stories and characters you could fall in love with and watch again and again.
We need a renaissance in Hollywood, however, I'm not sure Hollywood is capable of course correcting itself any longer. Despite admissions from some of the industry leaders that the preaching has gone too far, they seem unable to pull themselves out of the nose dive.
But all is not lost. While I've covered how foreign films and even independent YouTubers are creating better content with far smaller budgets than Hollywood can crank out with their bottomless pockets and fields of talented individuals, Hollywood faces an ever-growing crisis in the form of AI.
Watch this video below. It's a recreation of a fight scene from the "Cowboy Beebop" movie using stable diffusion and AI image generation. You'll notice a few things that are weird right off the bat. It's a bit deep into the uncanny valley, the image seems to vibrate, and the mouths aren't lining up with the speech at all.
While this is all true, it should be noted that this is a tech in its infancy...but it's a baby that's growing at a very, very accelerated rate.
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This is, of course, not the full extent of what AI is capable of even now. A YouTube channel called "Talking to AI" features a very realistic AI-generated image of a woman using GPT-3 to answer questions.
Again, all of this is in its infancy, but both of these videos show how much progress is being made in these fields.
Now one has to begin to ponder where this kind of technology will be in the next decade.
It won't be big studios or the rich that have access to this. We can already log onto various sites and have images generated for us via a simple description of what we want to see. On my Photoshop program, I can ask it to generate more of an image already present with the click of a button.
I can say with some certainty that within the next decade, AI will put the power of video creation in the palm of everyone's hands, not just image creation. This will open a floodgate of creativity and allow ideas that had been locked away by the entertainment industry's gatekeepers to see the light of day.
You won't need to go to the theater to see the latest blockbuster (for lack of a more updated term), you'll only need to flip on your television app and find which social media platform it's posted on.
Sure, it won't look super realistic at first, but over time it will and soon you won't be able to know the difference. You or your kid might create the next Godfather using only AI-generated footage.
Hollywood will become irrelevant, and eventually die off. Its studios and sets will become museum pieces. Its parts will be sold off to the highest bidders as collector's items.
And as it does, you'll also start to see a cultural shift as well. With the big stage now belonging to the common man, the creativity renaissance will begin.
