who wants to spend time consuming AI art? If the costs are low, then there is no moat to create movies or gaussian splat VR games, and therefore no reason to spend money on movies or VR splat games.
Is the artist the paint brush or the mind behind it creating the vision?
A lot of vfx today is automated and things are possible that we’re just too cost prohibitive before. You could say “who wants to see digital art”. The moat is the artist realizing their vision - for the same $ spend you get significantly more art or higher quality art (eg first pass by AI with humans doing the refinement steps).
The boom in television is because of plummeting production and distribution costs for example
