6K view and It’s clearly marketed as AI generated. Is there any clue that people are watching this because of its qualities as a film and not as another demo about “OMG AI will destroy Hollywood next year this time around”?

I don’t believe that the hardship of making content is about it being pretty or resemble something.

> People are making AI-generated films that rival anything you'll find on television.

No, they aren't.

> Here's just one example.

There are some decent frames in that, but as a film it is atrocious. Heck, even the individual animated clips that are stitched together aren’t particularly good. It does not “rival anything you'll find on television".

Just watched that video.. it's unwatchable. It's basically one still after another. There are way too few animations, i.e things going on..