Trending on Reddit: China's iQiyi Says Most of Its Films and Shows Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years
What Happened
At its annual showcase, iQiyi CEO Gong Yu announced the biggest overhaul since 2010: pivot the streaming app into a social destination built around AI-generated content. The Nadou Pro AI suite handles scripts, storyboards, and final renders. iQiyi targets a commercially successful AI feature film by summer and is launching a 16-title AI slate spanning sci-fi and anime.
My Take
Hollywood will dismiss this as a Chinese stunt and miss the point. iQiyi has 100M+ subscribers and is openly betting that the marginal cost of "good enough" content drops 90% by 2028 — turning streaming into TikTok with longer runtimes. The first US studio brave enough to ship an AI-native vertical (anime, kids, true-crime reenactments) wins the cost war before the prestige war is even joined. The streaming economy is about to bifurcate: human-made tentpoles and AI-generated infinite scroll.
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