Don't view generative AI video as just a way to make traditional films more efficiently. Ben Horowitz sees it as a fundamentally new creative medium, much like movies were to theater. It enables entirely new forms of storytelling by making visuals that once required massive budgets accessible to anyone.

When the gaming industry pivoted from 2D pixel art to 3D graphics, it wasn't just a technological change. For developers like Tez Okano, it was an emotional collapse. He described it as "watching the collapse of an empire," where the meticulous craft of pixel art was suddenly deemed obsolete, forcing artists to adapt or face unemployment.

The Writers' Guild of America strike offers a sophisticated model for labor unions navigating AI. Instead of an outright ban, they negotiated a dual approach: winning protections against AI-driven displacement while also securing guarantees for their members to use AI as an assistive tool for their own benefit.

ElevenLabs' CEO predicts AI won't enable a single prompt-to-movie process soon. Instead, it will create a collaborative "middle-to-middle" workflow, where AI assists with specific stages like drafting scripts or generating voice options, which humans then refine in an iterative loop.

Venture capitalists calling creators "Luddite snooty critics" for their concerns about AI-generated content creates a hostile dynamic that could turn the entire creative industry against AI labs and their investors, hindering adoption.

While photorealism is a common goal, the first fully AI-generated films will likely be animated or fantasy. This is because traditional filmmaking is already cheap and effective at capturing reality. AI's true economic and creative advantage lies in generating complex, non-photorealistic visuals that are currently expensive to produce.

The moment an industry organizes in protest against an AI technology, it signals that the technology has crossed a critical threshold of quality. The fear and backlash are a direct result of the technology no longer being a gimmick, but a viable threat to the status quo.

Katzenberg views drone light shows not as mere spectacles but as a revolutionary, multidimensional storytelling platform. He believes their potential to transform entertainment is as significant as the impact CGI and Pixar had on filmmaking, creating entirely new, immersive experiences.

An AI CEO predicts that within two years, AI tools will make content creation instantaneous and nearly free. This will destroy traditional moats like audience loyalty and production quality, as anyone can generate photorealistic content. The market will shift focus from the creator to the individual content piece.