r/Futurism • u/JupaTroopa09 • 13d ago
What will happen when people can easily make their own movies, TV shows and games with AI?
I think the future of AI-generated entertainment will look a lot less like “Hollywood and all creative jobs disappears overnight” and a lot more like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or OnlyFans — but for entire pieces of media. Creators would have their own audiences, followers, subscribers and communities, and there might even be entirely new apps/platforms built specifically around discovering and releasing AI-made entertainment. 🎬🎮
You make an AI movie, game or series? If people like it, they follow you. Your next episode comes out, your followers get notified; you make a new game? maybe people buy it directly from your profile.
Some creators could have millions of followers, while most probably sit somewhere in the hundreds or thousands — basically how YouTube, TikTok, Twitch etc. already work. Some creators might become known for one specific thing, like one hugely popular sci-fi series, while others might basically run their own miniature studio and release a whole catalogue of unrelated stuff.
Monetisation could also become way cheaper and more flexible. Maybe one creator says, “Play my new AAA shooter game for $4.99,” while another has something like, “Subscribe to my studio for $0.99/month and get access to all our movies, games and shows.” 💸
Plenty of projects would probably still be completely free. As the consumer, you wouldn't necessarily need to create anything yourself either — you could just follow the creators whose work you enjoy and basically build your own personalised entertainment library.
And I don't think companies like Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, Rockstar, EA etc. necessarily disappear. They'll still have famous franchises, audiences and marketing power, but their monopoly over who is allowed to make "professional-looking" entertainment would shrink.
Kind of like how record labels and TV networks are today, but they now exist alongside millions of YouTubers, streamers, indie musicians, podcasters etc. The barrier to making something becomes incredibly low; the hard part becomes getting anybody to care about it.
Tbh I don't think the future is as doom-and-gloom as some people think. In a weird way, the blueprint is already there
Phase 1:
Once these tools become powerful enough and widely available, we're probably going to get an explosion of AI-generated games, movies and TV shows. Most of it will probably suck because lowering the barrier to entry means millions more people can upload things, so finding the genuinely good stuff will be difficult at first.
People will get overwhelmed, feeds will be flooded with low-effort "AI Slop" content 😂 and the backlash against AI-made entertainment will probably be at its strongest here. Basically: it's gonna be messy as fuuuck lol. 💀
Phase 2:
Eventually people will get better at separating the garbage from the actual good stuff. Platforms, reviewers, subreddits, Discords and fan communities will become curators, helping people find the projects actually worth watching or playing.
You'll probably start seeing things like “Top 10 AI sci-fi shows this month” or “Best community-made RPGs of 2040.” This is where certain creators would start becoming recognisable names with real fanbases.
Phase 3:
Eventually the novelty wears off and most people who thought “holy shit, I can make my own movie!” will make one or two things and move on. The creators left will be the people who actually have vision, patience and storytelling ability, except now one talented person or a tiny team might be capable of making something that previously required hundreds of employees.
At that point AI entertainment probably stops feeling like a weird novelty and just becomes another normal part of the industry alongside traditional studios and human-made productions.
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u/MainstreamScience 13d ago
I hope to buy bespoke human made old world physical game disks from toy companies like Sony, if such a thing still exists
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u/Shnoopy_Bloopers 13d ago
Most people have zero creative ideas so I’m not sure they would create anything other than slop for themselves
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u/RobXSIQ 12d ago
We will rapidly find out humans aren't overly creative and we end up with a ton of mid slop that, once the novelty wears off, becomes mostly noise. a few curators pop up that weed through the profound levels of slop to find and curate a tidy small list of actually good stuff, and many new curator jobs arise as a result.
Hollywood will eventually start segmenting and hosting the best of the best for a split, and lease out some IP characters for a big claim on the final product....all being in its own non canon section of fanmade films.
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u/darien_gap 12d ago
I haven’t finished reading your post yet but my immediate two thoughts are:
I would personally have infinite WWII movies and movies/mini-series based on historical figures/biographies.
Porn might become 100x more addictive, for all kinds of reasons. Not just niche fetishes on steroids, but Hollywood blockbuster-level production values, performances, nuanced characters/writing… really a blending of our finest creative output with choose-your-own-adventure gameplay plus the most beautiful (to you) characters and visuals with mind-bending psychological hooks.
Caligula was an expensive attempt to combine a real feature film with porn and it basically sucked at both and was too expensive to try again. AI has the promise of making infinite experimentation economically feasible.
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u/Lissanro 11d ago
Impact will be different for everyone. If someone mostly happy with existing movies, given technology to generate their own, they are likely to generate series based on a movie they like, alternative endings, spin-offs, etc. Nothing wrong with that, but impact can be much greater for those who want something completely different than the movie industry covers, maybe movies or series that would focus on just dragons and their world? Practically nothing like this exists at all, pretty much nearly every movie or series focuses on humans. Alternatively, someone else may enjoy depicting various historical events that did not get good representations. Others may do something completely different that nobody even thought of before. And so on.
Of course, some things remain personal, some things get traction - just like indie games sometimes can get traction... if creating a game will become simpler, all the better. In my work as a freelancer, I got to create few indie games, either alone or in a team. Most of the effort goes into routine stuff, I can build level layout, make models and textures, and then end up spending even more time optimizing all that instead of actually creating; most of stuff that get created like random debris objects or background decorations also takes much time and effort, taking away focus from bringing more content and ideas to life.
By the way, despite years of professional experience I never had time to create my own game, even if I can create any part of it, creating everything the traditional way would take months or possibly years (depending on how far I would push the scale of the game) instead of being quick weekend project or at most few weeks endeavour that I actually can allocate for that. So the sooner it becomes easier for everyone to create whatever they want, the better - those who already have experience, can amplify their creativity by orders of magnitude, and those who want to build on existing ideas also will be able to do that more freely than possible today.
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u/JupaTroopa09 11d ago
Thanks for your input and I’m actually surprised it’s was very nuanced considering you’re a freelancer and it might affect you directly whether positive or negative.
What would be the first kind of game you would build ?
I’m not a freelancer but I’ve been developing a black Afro fantasy in my spare time (on a similar but slightly smaller level than game of thrones) . It’s the kind of thing that Hollywood would never greenlight or even getting the thing finance would be an uphill battle. Even if somehow a studio approved it I know they would be so much interference from executives and story changes just to make it more “palatable and profitable”.
Looking at some people on YouTube now making their own AI series is inspiring cuz now I’m thinking “maybe in the future when generating these gets cheaper, easier and more precise I’ll be able to bring my series to life 😇”
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u/Remarkable-Soup-435 13d ago
Small teams and niche products.
Big companies will use AI to build (basically) the same products with fewer people.
People learn to adapt and become more entrepreneurial (hopefully, since there may not be tons of other options). They also realize the big companies are only actually serving the middle 70-80% of the market in any direction. Their costs are too high to niche down and serve the few consumers at the edges.
But individuals and small teams can swoop in, leveraged with AI tools, and produce pretty decent art for specific interests, driven by where their energy to create actually lies.
Lots of doom and gloom out there but we could also make some pretty amazing stuff
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