1. GOOD. The only reason home-made A.I. films pose a risk to Hollywood is that Tinseltown now makes films for the lowest human common denominator and audiences who have been conditioned to like crap. The choice of a fistfight is telling: once martial arts films from Asia started infecting entertainment, the level of thought and talent going into movies and being distributed by them took a slow and steady dive to oblivion. Special effects and CGI focused-franchises like the Marvel and DC superhero movies, the “Jurassic Park,” “John Wick,”and “Mission Impossible” franchises condition audiences to accept plots and dialogue that often make Bugs Bunny cartoons seem like Noel Coward. Oh no! Soon anyone will be able to make crap! Well, if Hollywood can’t or won’t aspire higher than that, it deserves what it fears is coming.

2. Anyone who is fooled for two seconds into thinking that video is real is so ignorant, dumb and cinematically unsophisticated they would be impressed by Ed Wood movies. Okay, I’ll excuse kids under ten. Slow kids under ten. Is that Hollywood’s audience now? If so, whose fault is that? It’s a rhetorical question.

3. One aspect of A.I that has already made life worse is that we no longer can believe anything we see online any more. Animal videos, for example, have been ruined forever. They once were funny, cute, touching, scary or exciting because they were real, so our reaction would be “Wow!Animals are amazing/almost human!” Now, our reaction has to be, “Wow! that A.I. stuff keeps getting better!” or “Wait, is that real? I bet its not.” One more small bit of pleasure stolen from us forever.

4. How many people are likely to be brilliant and perceptive scriptwriters, visually gifted and also able to stage drama and comedy like a talented director? My guess: very, very few. If A.I. helps a genius like Orson Welles or Stanley Kubrick express his or her talents and find an audience when otherwise they would be buried by a lack of opportunity, that would be wonderful.

5. A.I. is easy to blame for what Hollywood fears, but the causes are much more varied. Netflix, an insider recently revealed, tells film- and series- makers to make sure the plot is repeated many times throughout a feature, because its typical audience is multi-processing and the TV is the “second screen.” Social media has reduced the attention spans of most Americans to that of puppies, and our schools no longer require students to read many book…and “schools” include colleges. Audience increasingly don’t have the ability to process great plays; young audiences can’t endure not looking at their phones every ten minutes. If people can’t sit through “High Noon,” “Ben Hur,” “Twelve Angry Men,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “MacBeth” or “The Philadelphia Story” without squirming and now prefer “Deadpool,” Hollywood and our society can’t blame A.I.

6. If the current cultural and societal trends are allowed to continue through our foolishness and apathy, that mindless 30 second video above might not only be good enough to compete with Hollywood, it will be long enough to be nominated for an Oscar.