"The future is one person making a whole film"

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Hell Grind (trailer above) was produced entirely on the Higgsfield AI video platform by a 15-person team in Kazakhstan, purportedly in just 14 days for $500,000 or which $400,000 was compute costs. In other words, labor and all the rest was 1/4 the cost of compute

https://www.creativebloq.com/ai/the-future-is-one-person-making-a-whole-film-says-director-of-first-ai-movie-at-cannes

[ergophobe]

Here's the trailer (no doubt preceded by multiple ads)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVzfQuC0aMU

Honestly, it doesn't look particularly worse than the limitless flow of garbage perpetually emitting from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I'm in trouble if my wife sees that comment).

[ergophobe]

And this

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
https://longreads.com/2026/05/12/training-ai-tv-industry/

[ergophobe]

OTOH... Hollywood still can't solve babies with CGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygCoyygZI6Q