District 9 Director Uses AI for Short Film: Technical Breakthrough or Creative Decline?

When a director famous for practical physical effects and immersive storytelling chooses to rely entirely on AI to generate a 13-minute short film, is this a declaration of technological victory, or a metaphor for creators surrendering to their tools? Neill Blomkamp's Nightborne was completed using ByteDance Seedance 2.0, but I don't care about "how much it looks like a movie." I only care about one question: What core contradiction is AI-generated video actually solving?