In terms of developing visual works, the difference is that AI is generally trained on images and videos that the companies have no license to. With CGI, it wasn’t like they were just taking a bunch of other people’s art, someone still had to do creative work.
It isn’t so much that they’re putting creatives out of work, but how they’re doing it. These AI models wouldn’t exist without art developed by humans.
In terms of developing visual works, the difference is that AI is generally trained on images and videos that the companies have no license to. With CGI, it wasn’t like they were just taking a bunch of other people’s art, someone still had to do creative work.
It isn’t so much that they’re putting creatives out of work, but how they’re doing it. These AI models wouldn’t exist without art developed by humans.