[jyl]

Lots of implications.

No more need for actors, directors, crews, props, costumes, locations - basically all of the global film and TV industry goes away, except for the writers and marketers, but they go away too.

No more need for photograpers, videographers, stock footage, video or sound editors -basically all of that industry goes away.

No more need for game coders, and videogames is a bigger industry than the whole film and TV industry.

Okay, where labor is strong, they might be able to slow this - stuff that isn’t needed might still be required, by union contact or laws . . . but that won’t last, nothing can long stand in the way of money.

No more need for artists either, by the way. Why make any image with hands on brush, charcoal, or stylus, when it can simply be generated? Sure, a small number of conoisseurs won’t accept AI generated art, then they’ll age out and take their objections with them.

That’s just some of the commercial implications. The social implications are worse.

There will be no way to know if a photo or video are factual or invented. Period. Did you know that the NYPD murdered an entire family, raped the women and eviscerated the men, shot the children and burned down their house, last week? Here’s the video and audio. Here’s video proof. Did you know that the Governor of Texas was caught screwing underage models in bondage? Here’s proof. Did you know that gunmen from Gaza took over a music festival in Israel and politely greeted the Jewish kids before leaving them unharmed? Here’s proof. Did you know that Auschwitz was a voluntary stay center where refugees from Allied bombing received shelter, medical care and food and children went to school? Proof.

Laughable? Not in a country where a fifth of people think Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are part of a Pentagon plot to steal the election. Or where more than a fifth of people think the Holocaust never happened, like the moon landings. And if you think people are stupid now, wait until a generation of kids grows to adulthood having never seen or heard anything but invented video and audio.

You’d think Congress would be all over this. Mandatory watermarking, disclosures, no AI images of actual people or hostorical events, etc - pretty obvious stuff that can be done. But money talks, and there is now more money behind AI than any industry in the history of the world.