There's a small creative company called "The Dor Brothers" who have an account on X. Just the other day, they released a video that showed off something they'd created with their own AI video program that was obviously artificial intelligence, but the fact that it's clearly AI isn't the point.
While you watch this video, don't judge it by its overall look and pace. Pay attention to the details. Reflections, transitions, camera angles, lighting, etc. The things you typically don't notice because you're busy consuming the whole image in front of you.
We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day.
— The Dor Brothers (@thedorbrothers) February 16, 2026
Yes, this is 100% AI. pic.twitter.com/TMotM7rguY
All of this is AI. Not a scrap of it is human, except the prompt-writing and tweaking. Look at the way the woman's hands manipulate the paper and the way it reacts to her moving it around. The way her hair moves realistically. The reflections in the glass of the room behind her when she's looking out the window. The particle effects as the building comes crashing down. When she's running on the car, pay attention to the movement of her coat.
The appearance of Kash Patel and Trump looks as if they signed up to be in the movie themselves, down to the nature of their voices.
Is it all perfect? Absolutely not. The helicopter crash was a bit too unrealistic, and Teslas don't have an engine to rev, but despite some of these errors, the video is impressive on a technical level.
Moreover, the lead actress is an AI model that may very well receive a designation that is reused in later projects. You come to know its face and voice... like a normal actress.
That last subject is being talked about quite extensively in Hollywood circles. Last year, I wrote about a celebrity named "Tilly Norwood," an actress who isn't actually real. She's an AI model that had some Hollywood celebrities sneering.
Read: Could One 'Actress' Usher in the Death of Hollywood?
Funnily enough, Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet sat down for a town hall on CNN, and this very subject was brought up. As McConaughey said, the age of AI entertainment is already here. There's too much money to be made from it, thanks to the fact that it saves on production and actor costs.
He recommends actors trademark their likeness and voice so that when, not if, agencies come looking to use you as an AI representation, you can control how much of you is used and how much you make. He also pondered how award show categories would be reworked in this day and age, but regardless, it will be present, and you won't even know what's AI and what's not.
#MatthewMcConaughey predicts to #TimothéeChalamet that AI actors will crash the #Oscars: “It’s damn sure going to infiltrate our category.”
— Variety (@Variety) February 19, 2026
“Will we, in five years, have Best AI Film? Best AI Actor? Maybe. I think it could become another category. I’m not sure. It’s going to be… pic.twitter.com/hgX3xDypLy
It’s going to be in front of us in ways we don’t even see.
While I think McConaughey is right, I don't think he's got the full picture. He's still thinking in terms of Hollywood being at the center of it all.
That, I think, will not be the case.
The technology The Dor Brothers are utilizing is nice, but it will be obsolete in two years, possibly sooner. AI movie creation is already available to the general public, and it looks fantastic already, but rest assured, it's only going to get better.
I would not be surprised — and I'd put my money on — hit movies and serials hitting platforms like YouTube that are completely AI-generated, and made by people like little Timmy, who put the film together between homework and dino nuggies. A housewife may create one of the greatest rom-coms ever after she puts her kids to bed for the night. A sitcom created by a blue-collar worker could spring up that takes the world by storm.
Hollywood will have nothing to do with it. It'll be all regular people like you and me.
There will be stand-outs, but most of it will be absolute garbage. Just like on YouTube, you're going to get some really great videos from creators who know how to edit well, write good scripts, and display a sort of talent for storytelling, but most of it will be garbage. AI slop will become a very real problem on social media platforms.
It already is, and the fact that it's becoming harder and harder to understand the difference should tell you everything about where we're headed.
I'm not entirely sure how this will be combatted. I do think many platforms will require you to admit to your content being AI-created or assisted, and there will be categories created that go between real human creation and AI creation, but I do think that AI creation will dwarf human creation by volume.
AI entertainment will become the predominant form of entertainment, and I don't think we're going to get away from that. Pandora's box is open. The cat's out of the bag. The question now is how we live with it and utilize it.
