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A use case I just realized will likely become popular is to “clean room design” a copy of a tv show episode or movie.

1. Turn each shot from the source material into a prompt

2. Edit the shot prompts, reorder the sequence of shots, to suite your narrative

3. Generate “new” tv show/movie

This largely solves the problem that you still need to understand storytelling, cinematography, and editing to make something compelling.

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It already is- to some extent. I see a ton of TikToks on friends feeds that are scenes from the TV show Friends but they’ve generated video of baby versions of each character to say the lines. I haven’t seen them replace the audio but you could imagine that being a next step whenever they hit copyright trouble. The worst part is that I’ve asked why they like them, they say the babies are cute and they know/love the scenes so it’s all good.

It does feel like it must be the engagement version of junk food, though.

“The algorithm” knows perfectly well what you want to watch. So it seems inevitable to me that eventually “the algorithm” just generates an endless stream of content fine tuned to you.

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