[Telepathic Intruder]

Why pay less to make a movie without actors and elaborate sets? Because actors like getting paid. Set designers like getting paid. Directors like getting paid. They all like to get paid.

[katana]

Actors like getting paid. Set designers like getting paid. Directors like getting paid. They all like to get paid.

And the producers and studio investors like higher profits and less narcissistic BS to deal with. Unemployed "stars" can always go back to dinner theater.

[bobbo666]

But, if AI can eliminate the monsters who call themselves writers, this is good.