The writing has been on the wall for that for awhile though...

Every large animation studio has continually been looking for ways to decrease the number of artists required to produce a film, since the beginning of the field.

I don't know who in the upper parts of the various guilds in Hollywood saw this demo'd last summer, but they really really took notice. Those strikes went on for a long time, and it seems that holding out and getting the clause in to exclude this kinda tech was a brilliant bit of foresight. Holy heck, in 5 years, maybe just a year, this kinda tech is going to take nearly all their jobs.

doesn’t that apply to software as well

It does, but I daresay the world's appetite for "more software" (in all applications) seems to be infinite.

The only reason this is possible is because of the content those people created. This literally doesn’t exist without them. Not sure what you’re trying to say….

Yea... thats the point he was making.

When they came for the animators, I did not speak, for I was not an animator.

when they came for the animators, I did not speak, for the diffusion model forgot to give me a plausible mouth