https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

And the last decades' exponential increases in productivity could have lead to keynes' famous 15 hour workweek - except they didn't.

Instead, productivity got directed to more output and more profit and working hours stayed the same if not increased.

As such, I'm more predicting this will simply lead to less VFX artists being employed by the studios than for there being a substantial improvement in working conditions.

Says the former manager of a VHX house who now negotiates with studios… he’d literally be one of the people responsible for this situation.

It’s a shortage of employers willing to pay workers. Thats why they cant get enough artists

After many years I've eventually landed on using [work ticket tracker] for work tracking, Apple Reminders for todo lists which are rarely complex items, and Logseq for journaling. My journal really is just that, I rarely go back to previous entries, but I find it helpful to spend a bit of time each day just noting down what I did and how I felt about it. I sometimes joke that this is my insurance policy in case the Police knock on my door and ask me what I did on the 12th of March this year.

And I see two scenarios too:

1. You can pay the studio (?) some semi-trivial amount for the use of a completely generated AI actor that perfectly fits the Director's vision for the role.

2. You get legal knock-off actors. Sure, it's $20 MM to use Tom Cruise, but for only $1 MM you can use AI-generated Thom Ruse, who looks exactly like Tom Cruise, but just slightly different enough to be legally considered his own IP.

Soon enough the results will be sufficiently believable that actors/celebrities will be selling the right to use their image and voice for a role in a movie without ever actually being on camera.