The less-than-scrupulous parts of the internet have already embraced these AI tools to create fake porn videos of their favorite celebrities, which is understandably causing a lot of concern and scandal. It will soon be impossible to believe anything you see online. But at the same these tools are going to completely revolutionize the visual effects industry, allowing filmmakers without a Hollywood-sized budget to produce FX-laden movies that can easily compete with those coming out of the big studios.

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If you run a visual effects studio and aren’t at least paying attention to these recent developments in deep learning and AI image manipulation tools, let alone working to adopt them into your pipeline, you’re missing out on a revolution that could soon put you out of work.

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