When the chatbots all came out, they took over all of the social networks as people would type anything you can imagine in them just to get them to write scripts or tell jokes. I wonder if the advent of generative AI will kind of lead us back to a more artisanal way of producing stories. And so I wonder if there'll be something similar with sort of entertainment where you'll have your AI generated TikTok videos that you watch for sort of cheap pleasure.
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