After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt’s new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. Inside the mother’s womb, we’re shown Blonde-esque close-ups of the baby, whose heartbeat gradually becomes part of the film’s soundtrack. Visually Ancestra feels like a project that is trying to prove how all of the AI slop videos flooding the internet are actually something to be excited about. Image: GoogleBut Ancestra also feels like a case study in how generative AI stands to eliminate jobs that once would have gone to people. Had it been the other way around, Ancestra might have wound up telling a much more interesting story.