Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The models are going to get better. The tools are going to get better. Within a few years, anyone will be able to create a feature length movie if they have an idea. Will it be Hollywood level? Probably not. Does that matter? Probably not. Two other thoughts: 1. Quantity of creative internet video will increase by orders of magnitude. How do you find the interesting ones vs. low effort slop? 2. Would you rather watch average Netflix or Hollywood move (assume top 10% are affinity for the storyteller / actors and are actually good) or just expand on the universe of your favorite story. Endless Sicario sequels but if Villeneuve AI is director and Sheridan AI is the screenwriter?
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You're overweighting Villeneuve and Sheridan for Sicario... it's everyone that made it + the zeitgeist + novelty of the story telling & production styling. And underweighting the magic that comes from Villeneuve and Sheridan + team getting a shot at the big time. If ZIRP has proven anything, 'endless' resource doesn't equal success. New creative teams + opportunity in the form of budget and marketing support does equal better shots at finding something magical. So the choke point is actually creative people finding other right creative people + the attention + opportunity to tell the story in the first place. To me that means a timeline is the best place for creatives to meet and wrangle enough attention for opportunity, ie filmmaking in the Farcaster timeline
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Agree on meeting other collaborators. But if you extrapolate out, seems like the most valuable parts humans still do are taste, novel aesthetic judgement (AI is good a replicating commodity stuff) and novel storytelling (similarly, Sopranos felt novel relative to Nth prestige TV show in 2025 with a brooding male anti-hero).
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Sounds like you agree with me; creatives are the curators, but with consensus tools like @ponder & @votecaster the audience can help guide creative decisions like taste, aesthetic and story telling too (community > AI tools). Have to be directionally correct after-all. The most important thing then becomes structure and pacing (where creatives have time to go away and create, while not losing the attention in the process). Funny enough I start tonight to prove this all: https://farcaster.xyz/tcw/0x33167402
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