After Hollywood: AI Video and the On-Ramp to Synthetic Media

AI video’s iPhone moment and how YouTube’s pipes will make it ambient; and creators, not studios, will set the pace.

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“One man’s slop is another man’s gold.” — Rohan Sahai, OpenAI’s product lead for Sora

For months, the trades have been childishly defensive: this is junk, beneath us, no substitute for “re…