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> He is totally expecting that the next shift will be that gen ai video will become good enough to be considered the master (ie no need to film) and he is already transferring his skills as a camera operator into prompting and AI assisted scene design.

Yes. Asian drama is already there.[1] The first AI-generated Asian vertical-format drama was released in November 2025. Now, about 400 new ones are released each day. The tools are online, and you can sign up for a few dollars a month.

Quality varies widely. The visuals are now quite good, but chatbots used to generate screenplays still have trouble holding the plot together. Much of this stuff looks like fan fiction authors are at the controls. When someone competent is driving, the results are quite good. Cost is about 10% of live action.

Hollywood probably has less than three years to live.

[1] https://pinedrama.com/blog/paradigm-shift-ai-short-drama-rev...

> Hollywood probably has less than three years to live.

"Probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Can you link to a high quality example of a short drama?

The article mentions ShortMax's "Too Late! The Daughter of Olympus Forsakes You" and NetShort's "One Move God Mode". I found something on YouTube for both, but there's zero chance what I saw was Hollywood level quality (unless you really hate Hollywood movies!)

Most of these things have awful plots. As yet, the AI systems used are not very good at plotting. If given a screenplay and character sheets, they can do reasonably well. But the "generate a 60 episode drama from one prompt" jobs are not very good. This is more of a problem with the Asian drama industry than the technology. There are not that many different plots.

The visuals are consistently good now. If you put in a decent script, there's a good chance of getting something good. The script has to tell the characters what to emote. The automation isn't good at that yet. Nor are the vocals good at all.

Give it six months.

Here's a half-decent example.[1] The visuals are good, the plot is adequate, and the audio is poor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5w1jiTYrTw

Thank you: definitely interesting. I'm unsure what I would compare it to.

Any idea of the production cost?

Was it originally released as episodes?

I'm currently reading David Copperfield which was serialized as 20 monthly installments - which had side-effects.

abominable

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