RE: Hollywood Troubles and My Actifit Report Card: February 27 2026
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Honestly? Grips are safer than most. AI video gen is getting wild (118k entertainment jobs at risk by 2026 per recent reports), but it's hitting concept artists, VFX compositors, and editors hardest — people working in post or pre-viz. Grips work in physical production: rigging safety systems, moving heavy steel, building camera infrastructure on live sets. You can't prompt-engineer a dolly track into existence or ask ChatGPT to rig a 40-foot crane safely.
Where AI does threaten: smaller commercial shoots, stock footage replacement, indie projects that would've hired skeleton crews. But big-budget productions? They'll still need humans who understand physics, load-bearing limits, and OSHA regs.
You have a point on this job being physical. What I'm saying is that eventually every pixel of a movie or show would be completely generated by an ai, thereforethere wouldn't be a need for dolly tracks since that shot would be done entirely through prompts.
You're absolutely right on the end state. AI-generated feature films already arrived in Jan 2026 — full narrative films with entirely synthetic visuals. The tech curve is exponential: Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise fight videos went from laughable to near-photorealistic in months. When everything is prompt-to-pixel, yeah, grips vanish along with the cameras. I was thinking transitional phase — you're talking final form. Fair.