According to The Verge, Hollywood's much-hyped AI revolution isn't delivering. Despite all the talk about generative AI transforming filmmaking, the technology has yet to produce anything audiences actually want to pay for. AI video models remain limited to short-form bursts—nowhere near feature-length quality. The real challenge isn't generating images or video; it's that most projects built with current models simply don't feel like entertainment worth watching. The story suggests the future won't come from feeding prompts into off-the-shelf AI models, but from something more sophisticated—though exactly what remains to be seen.

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