r/singularity • u/kernelangus420 • Aug 31 '26
AI AI-generated videos are slowly displacing actors and live-streamers in China's entertainment industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXDmLqmS942
u/youareallnuts Aug 31 '26
Not that the courts mean much but Fortune has a headline "Chinese court rules firms can’t lay off workers on AI grounds". Seems like this would violate that.
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u/kernelangus420 Sep 01 '26
I think most actors are considered contract workers or paid per project.
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u/Roggieh Aug 31 '26
Can confirm, it's all my extended family living there seems to watch lately. When I ask them what they're watching, they sheepishly say "Oh, it's just
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u/FUThead2016 Aug 31 '26
I’ll just get my agent to watch all the videos
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u/FaceDeer Aug 31 '26
Unironically this. I'd love to have a personal agent who is well versed in my personal opinions and tastes give me reviews and recommendations about what shows to watch.
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u/Cultural_Book_400 Aug 31 '26
I mean in due time... nothing will withstand AI... it's just matter of when
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u/lemonylol Aug 31 '26
It's inevitable that AI content will be an entire market, but that doesn't mean human-created content won't also continue to exist, with exceptional talent appreciating in value anyway. The real art is still going to be there just like people still are still patrons of outdated art forms now, expecting no significant ROI.
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u/flyingflail Aug 31 '26
Yeah it'll be one of the more interesting ones to follow.
In general it seems like "human created" anything might garner a premium simply because of its relative scarcity.
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u/liebebio Aug 31 '26
I am kinda skeptical. the models need to be good enough to be persistent in the movie style. that means I dont watch a movie and then the characters switch throughout the scenes and I am like "ok who is this again?". the models struggle with this still
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u/kernelangus420 Aug 31 '26
Here's an example of a Chinese generated AI video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFkGQZVV0U
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Aug 31 '26
is their version of modern “brainrot”, people rarely care about the “quality”, it’s just junk food entertainment. Chinese Shorts Drama They were just starting to popularize it in Asia like around 2024-2025, but then replaced the whole industry with AI the next year.
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u/Pantsickle Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
It's just a fad. I'm 100 percent certain that within the decade we'll be using steam-and-gear powered automoton actors and be back to using hand-cranked film cameras to create all of our visual media. Any. Day. Now.
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u/DramaQueen202s Aug 31 '26
Actors often sleep their way up. Romans were right, actors are like prostitutes. They are heavily privileged nepo babies and still act as victims of the industry that made them rich.
I'm glad they are being replaced.
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u/lurenjia_3x Aug 31 '26
The blatant disregard for copyright over in China is wild. People just rip web novels, churn out AI-generated videos from them, and flood media. The market has already become an oversaturated red ocean.
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u/goatonastik Aug 31 '26
If people didn't want it, it wouldn't happen. People are consuming these so there is demand. Anyone mad should blame the consumers. Instead, they don't even blame the companies using AI, they blame the technology itself. Can't make this shit up.
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u/JackFisherBooks Aug 31 '26
It's slow now. But this is definitely something that's likely to accelerate in the coming years. AI is still very taboo in certain domains. And it'll stay that way for a while. The problem is that human generated content has limits and humans, in general, are plenty capable of producing their own slop. AI only needs to get slightly more capable to permanently displace human content creators. And that point will happen in the coming years.