Hollywood's Death Is Here

The Writers Guild of America went on strike as major studios and streaming platforms are refused to agree to the terms of the striking writers. These studios know that they have a secret weapon that they believe will change the landscape of Hollywood forever, and that weapon is Artificial Intelligence. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Hollywood is done. What we think of as traditional Hollywood is done. It's been replaced by AI. They can do a script from AI. They can write the dialogue from AI. They can create the characters from AI. They can create the voice from AI. They can create all the technical hoops that have to be jumped through to produce. It is astounding. If you take just a minute and go online and just see what people in their home are doing. If you're in this business, buddy, you need to go find another job. That's what I'd recommend. And find out how to do AI and you got a better shot at making money the rest of your life.

Well, and it's very unfortunate because I know, obviously we support these writers.

Of course we do.

They deserve everything that they're asking for. And unfortunately, when you do look down the road and you see these studios already starting to turn to AI, you realize that this may be a fight that ultimately you can win. But that victory's not gonna last very long. Because what we see now happening is that the creativity of these individuals, which is unique, not just with the editors, with the set designers, everything. So much talent and creativity. We've now programmed computers that can just do it.

Scrape it.

Probably not as good, but good enough to where you pay $10 instead of paying a hundred people.

And the studio doesn't pay $20 million for an actor to act the part, or $10 million for a voice. That's what's happening. And it's almost like they're whistling through the graveyard and not understanding there's a reason that the studios are taking the avenue that, these are greedy punks. The studio management, they're greedy, ugly punks. And what they've done as far as, they've actually pulled up the sidewalks in front of the areas where these folks were trying, they pulled up the sidewalks. They're blaring noise. They're doing everything they can to interfere. Why? That's called reckless abandon, Farron. Look, go look at, there's a movie called Safe Zone, written, directed, shot, everything by AI. Actors by AI, voice by AI. Journey to the Center of the Earth. These things are popping up everywhere. And if you go online, you'll actually see where they're now teaching everybody how to do this in their home. You can make a movie in your home. So I think the idea of celebrity, you know, celebrity's not gonna mean anything anymore. And I guess the thing that strikes me is it's almost like they are ignoring the obvious. But the answer is it's not gonna change. It's not gonna change. It's gonna get worse. It's a new paradigm.

It really is. And as AI continues to evolve, and we're seeing it evolve at a alarming rate at this point. I mean, six months, not even six months ago, three months ago, we're sitting here talking about the idiot lawyer who used AI to write a legal brief. And it's made up all the fake cases. But we're already way past that. That's ancient history in the world of AI at this point. And we've had our guys kind of play around with it a little bit, write scripts for little skits we do.

Oh, let me announce you're not real. You know, you're computer generated.

I've been sitting at home for eight months now. But yeah, it's terrifying what it can do. And it could, it could replace me someday. Sure. Absolutely.

Go look at Pika Labs, P I K A labs, Farron, look at Runway labs. Here you've got generate, they generate scripts. They generate dialogue. They generate voices. They create voices. They create genders. Male, female, age, nationality. You know how they do it, focus groups. They say, okay, why did everybody like say Mel Gibson or whoever.