Neal Bloom argues AI won't replace actors soon, dismissing talk of AI actors in 2025 as hype. The real impact is efficiency gains in low-level VFX work like rotoscoping and paint, where cost pressures make automation valuable.
I mean, honestly, it's such BS the fact that someone would think that we would have an AI actor in 2025. Of course, when I heard that, I realized, I mean, it's the hype, that's the product, it's not anything else. And so of course I, you know, when I, the actors start having apoplectic fits, I tell them, oh, yeah, it's been trained on Stanislavski method, you know, and that kind of stuff. So they like literally started having a meltdown. But, you know, honestly, the real effect of AI is in the low level stuff. You know, I was in the visual effects industry for many years, and how many people know what rotoscoping is? Do you know what rotoscoping is? Okay, so roto is one of those things that's like someone punching you in the head repeatedly. And the automation that can come from that, from AI is an incredible efficiency win. And it goes across the board with things like paint work, all the kind of low level visual effects stuff. And we all know there's just not that much money in the, in the sort of ecosystem anymore, so we have to be really smart about it, and that's where AI comes in.
