Light Bulb Moment for AI Video
If Gen AI caught you off guard (you know who you are), AI video is your shot at redemption. This isn’t a passing meme—although there’s some good ones out there—it’s the biggest shift in screen-based story telling since the birth of cinema
AI is the new electricity, and AI video is the new light bulb.
This creative revolution, I think, is as pivotal as showing the first motion pictures to stunned Parisian crowds in 1895. And, while the idea of stunning Parisians always makes me smile, there's more to it.
The Birth of Cinema… Again
In early days of film, audiences were amazed to see workers leaving a factory. No audio. Moving images of anything was enough. Then, artists like Chaplin came along, turning novelty to narrative, then narrative to fortune.
And here we are more than a century later again waiting for our next Tramp to legitimize AI Video. It will be artists you have never heard of, with names like Matt Zien, Zahir Kahn, leading the way (look them up on LinkedIn).
This time, though, there’s no studio gates, no budget barriers, no moving to California (although Zien already lives there). An AI Video creator in Nairobi or Nashville has the same story telling tools once only reserved for the Hollywood industrial complex.
Tool to Toy to Trophy
Sure, too many of these early AI videos feel like folly: Lip-synced stand-ups and Big Foot selfie-stick memes.
Shhhhh. Bet you didn't know many of those hilarious Big Foot moments are 100% created by AI Agent workflows: Scheduled, scripted, prompted, rendered, posted. The workflow below is how to auto-generate Big Foot selfie-stick memes and rake in cash.
And, you were beginning to think Big Foot was real...
Even if it still feels kinda hollow for you now, mark my words, we’re on the verge of Emmy-winning episodes and Oscar-worthy pictures made with AI.
AI-creators will walk red carpets. In the next three-to-five years
Full-length AI-generated episodes will earn prestigious television slots. In the next two years.
Half of all TV commercials will have AI generated elements. In the next few minutes.
New stars will be born. Somebody's gonna sign Zien, Kahn and Big Foot.
And, those films, shows and commercials won’t be soulless. Like Chaplin's silent work in black and white, they’ll be emotional. Poetic. Funny. Fully human. Because tech won’t be replacing storytelling—it’ll be amplifying it.
Salute Progress, Call Out the Cheats
SAG-AFTRA and DGA: You’ve shown how adaptation and advocacy for craft can coexist. Respect.
WGA: Your turn.
To the stealth operators ripping-off likenesses, lifting voices, and dodging copyright—just stop already. You’re not pioneers. You are thieves.
Any future worth building with AI Video includes consent, credit and compensation.
Lights, Camera, Redemption
For everyone who ever wanted to make movies or TV shows—but life got in the way—this is your second chance. You don’t need a back lot or a studio exec’s green light. All you need is imagination and tokens.
If you were late to electricity, don’t miss this next light bulb moment.
Technology Executive with proven Sales & Technical Expertise working for Large enterprises in Media & Entertainment
1moI cant look away from the bigfoot & Yeti based videos....
I came across the details on how these videos are created and thought, hmmm, I can create my own version using 'fill-in-the-blank-animal'. Then I'm already seeing some of a squirrel. But then got to thinking - what are copyright and trademark laws as they pertain to this? If I create a character and idea and dialogue in my head and plug it in and it generates a video of a chipmunk, how am I protected from poachers doing the same thing with my idea? What if the AI engine makers claim it is theirs? Which is my chipmunk vs theirs? My revenue vs theirs? My tshirt/mug sales vs theirs? Very touchy area and it's going to be a field day for lawyers!
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1mo"You are thieves" --> but what do we do when we may be of the view that they are ALL stealing IP to train the models? If you are experimenting with the tools, you are empowering the theives. A real dilemma here. I'm not sure we are appreciating writ large how much it may impact society to have these massive companies strip mining everything in the public domain. Recently I found out that LinkedIn defaulted all of us to a user agmt that says that they own all the content we post to LI. That could be a serious advantage for Microsoft and we're giving them that right for free, as a collective, without even knowing it.