"AI Bro" here. Your show was one of my favorites growing up. The problem is, fewer than a hundred shows per year can be made like this. There are plenty of ethical AI models trained on licensed data. Even Google's models are trained on Youtube, which they have a right to train on. So is your argument against filmmaking being easy? If so, compared to drawing, CGI artists barely "do the work of an artist"; they merely instruct computers via mouse clicks and keyboard strokes. We do the same thing. It's not that AI filmmakers hate cameras or pencils; it's just impossible to make a TV show. I spent 15 years before I made my first one. It cost $2M an episode, and then it got stuck in studio hell for years. It's really admirable that you're fighting for artists, but the reality is that you're fighting for less than 100,000 artists who have the skills to adapt to new film technology just as they have been doing for the last 40+ years. I'm fighting for the 220 million content creators around the world who would never otherwise be able to make films. I'm fighting for the East African film student who could create the next Star Wars, but she doesn't have access to a film community, investors, or anything beyond her $300 laptop. But with AI, she can create anything. We shouldn't be fighting for a broken studio model that never cared about artists in the first place. AI is rock and roll. It is democratized tools, equally distributed. It is a creative revolution. Don't be Billy Graham, decrying that rock erodes our values. Be Elvis. Be the Beatles. Because change is coming whether you like it or not. You can commit AI slop on every post, but it will not get jobs back for your peers and friends. Equipping them with these tools and teaching them to surf the tsunami is the only way old Hollywood will survive. I know it's scary, I know it's disruptive, and the future is unclear, but one thing is certain: We are about to see the greatest explosion in creativity in the history of mankind. Content will 10000x what it is today. From dogshit slop to A5 Wagyu slop and everything in between. Because slop is just a term for these mediocre tools in the hands of untalented filmmakers. But the tools keep getting better each day. Current filmmakers are improving. And traditional filmmakers adapting and joining the ranks of those who do will not let Hollywood decide their destiny. Your rallying cry to resist change dooms your peers who could lead the way for the industry to adapt. You cannot put AI back in pandora's box. Films will never be the same again. We need veterans to lead the change, not gimmicky marketers. We need voices like yours to bridge the quality of the past with the speed of the future. What would 6-year old John think of this technology? Imagine what stories the next generation tell with no barrier to filmmaking. Inspire them as you inspired me when I was a young filmmaker. Be a shepherd of this movement.