This strike and the Hollywood strikes are going to be really interesting to watch play out because both are industries in transition, and there's more negotiating from positions of weakness rather than strength on both sides.
Time will tell, but I think you're wrong. I've heard way too many people say "computers will never X" in my life, only to see it to come to pass. Computers will never provide useful language translation... Computers will never be controlled by human speech... Chess computers will never beat the best humans... etc.
It’s threatening so many people across so many industries that I think it will become a brand risk to companies, particularly in high profile industries like entertainment.
Anecdotally, I watched the new Indiana Jones movie and I found the de-aging scene to be so weird and creepy, the friends I was there with felt the same and it was widely discussed among reviewers and critics. It really represents the planned uselessness of humanity in the AI era and I think more people are going to wake up to that reality as time goes by.
As a personal anecdote, the relevance of which just occurred to me, I attended a birthday party recently of regular church going people -- no techies in the crowd. An older gentleman got up and read a story that he had asked ChatGPT to create for the occasion. Everyone was laughing. Perhaps it's a one time novelty. But the average guy may be more accepting of it than we guess.
Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, said TV "may not be core to Disney."
https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/disney-traditional-tv-bob-ige...
This is not true, the pay and corporate culture in Hollywood has changed dramatically in the last decade, there’s a ton being written about this right now.
The streaming services are a huge part of Hollywood now because they’ve represented the growth while the networks have faded as people cut the cord. All kinds of folks have been seeing the stability of their jobs disappear in the Netflix era.