What has ACTUALLY decimated my industry is the overvaluation and inflation of everything in the economy

The real answer, like every creative industry over the past 200+ years, is oversaturation.

Artists starve because of oversaturation. There is too much art and not enough buyers.

Musicians starve because of oversaturation. And music is now easier than ever to create. Supply is everywhere, and demand pales in comparison. I have hundreds of CC BY-SA 4.0 artists in a file that I can choose for use in my videos, because the supply is everywhere.

Video games are incredibly oversaturated. Throw a stick at Steam, and it’ll land on a thousand games. There’s plenty of random low-effort slop out there, but there’s also a lot of passionate indie creators trying to make their mark, and failing, because the marketing is not there.

Millions of people shouting in the wind, trying to make their voices heard, and somehow become more noticed than the rest of the noise. It’s a near-impossible task, and it’s about 98% luck. Yet the 2% of people who actually “make it” practice survivorship bias on a daily basis, preaching that hard work and good ideas will allow you to be just like them.

It’s all bullshit, of course. We don’t live in a meritocracy.

Stable Diffusion does a lot already, for static pictures. I get good use out of Eleven for voice work, when I want something that isn’t my own narration.

I’m really looking forward to all of these new AI features in DaVinci Resolve 20. These are actual useful features that would improve my workflow. I already made good use of the “Create Subtitles From Audio” feature to streamline subtitling.

Good AI tools are out there. They are just invisibility doing the work for people that pay attention while all of the billionaires make noise about LLMs that do almost nothing.

I compare it to CGI. The very best CGI are the effects you don’t even notice. The worst CGI is when you try to employ it in every place that it’s not designed for.