I hope so, but big AI is banking on being able to use those models for everything.* Our "luck" is that Disney and other giant corporate copyright holders will indeed sue them to oblivion, or at least try.
* Afaik image gen AI is one the few profitable use cases, with Midjourney apparently being profitable already.
I suspect that there are significantly better options than the thing which just happened to be accessible to
me at the time, so I would say that quality, not cost, is the thing currently preventing feature length movies from being generated for less than the cost a movie theatre ticket.
* Afaik image gen AI is one the few profitable use cases, with Midjourney apparently being profitable already.