Is it just me, or is anyone else losing interest in AI video generation?
No fun. At all. However impressive the output looks at first glance — that's where it ends. What do I actually do with it? An output anyone could make with a similar prompt.
Here's what finally clicked. Automation feels good when it removes labor nobody wanted; nobody misses doing ray-tracing math by hand. But AI video removes the middle — the shot, the timing, the performance, the hundred small decisions. That middle was the work. Take it out and there's no place left to put yourself.
Notice what happens after. After I draw something, I want to draw the next one. After a generation, I want to... generate another one. And then what? The loop doesn't close on anything.
My 400th portrait is worse than any AI render in every measurable way. Line, proportion, value. But it's mine, and #401 will be different because #400 happened. AI shot #400 is exactly as good as shot #1. No trajectory. Nothing accumulated. Nothing risked.
It's not that AI is useless to me. Beside the work, it's great — a reference to check against, a quick value study, a "what would this angle look like" probe I then draw myself. That version is fun, because the drawing is still mine.
The moment it takes the pencil away, the fun leaves with it.
You don't call that creative art. Not even close.