This piece was born from watching the trailer for Dreams of Violets, the fully AI-generated feature programmed at Tribeca, and from my own reaction to that trailer alongside other examples of AI-generated film and video content I have seen over the past year. AI is already part of the creative process. It is already being used for research, development, image generation, pitch materials, previs, budgeting, marketing, post-production support and countless other tasks. Pretendi