Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines

I'm not sure about this specific instance, but AI generated movies will absolutely be the future, when you can create the exact shots you want with stability of the foreground, background, and characters, and edit it all together, it'll be an explosion of creativity just as with image generation currently.

To be clear, I don't think it'll be telling an AI to "create me a movie with X, Y, and Z" because AI reasoning is not there yet, but for the raw video generation, it's progressing steadily, as seen in r/aivideo.

> […] it'll be an explosion of creativity just as with image generation currently.

I'm mostly seeing people who lack the skills or means to create their own works go nuts with prompting gen-AI tools, but it rarely strikes me as creative in either the 'having the ability to create' sense — they've outsourced that — or the 'original, expressive, imaginative' sense.

They don't have the mechanical means, yes, but they decide what to create so it'd be the latter, not sure why you think it's not; the AI isn't independently coming up with ideas and generating the media. Plus with ComfyUI, I'd say there's some of the former too, similar to how music producers aren't literally playing each instrument that's simulated in their software, but they do assemble it together.

Creativity is more than just deciding that you want 'a space opera, but with an order of knights who yield swords that glow, bad guy looks like a Japanese samurai, reimagined in a 1970s futuristic style.'

Creativity is not just having the idea, it's bearing that to fruition in you own manner (or that of a group of people). Gen-AI outsources the 'creativity' needed to get what it generates. The prompt wrangler provides only the prompt; the rest is drawn from the training data.