an AI app called Pickaxe, which allows screenwriters essentially to get around writer's block so that they throw in some basic features of a story they want to tell. And Pickaxe suggests various plot lines that they can put into a story. Okay, that's pretty good. Wait,

so like Jesse Armstrong doing Succession is like, all right, Logan Roy's funeral. Shit, I don't know what to do with the eulogy scene. And just kind of basically feeds all of it to AI and AI is like, what if you do this?

Yeah, right. I've got a story that is like basically loosely based on the Murdoch Empire and King Lear. And I've got a son who's basically Hamlet and I've got a little dipshit called Roman and I've got Shiv. Here's the plot lines of how we got to the end of the series. Give me seven ways the story can end. When you learn how to play with it in an advanced way, you can give it more than that. You can say, of those seven ways that this season can end, give me three that are obvious. Give me two that are slightly less obvious. And give me two or three more that are really mind bendy and weird. And you can take all these and then mix and mash them together and write essentially the treatment of the last, you know, two episodes of, of succession. But again, it's one step further. Again, on the sandwiching side, once you've written that script, you can still plug writing into chat GPT and say, tell me what you think of this. If I read an essay that's kind of complicated, that's making a bunch of different points, and I don't know that I'm getting the point across, I can take that essay, put it into ChatGPT and say, what point do you think I'm making, computer? And it can tell me, here's what I think your thesis is. And if I think that's wrong, I can go back and say, oh, I have not been clear enough in my writing. So not only can you use ChatGPT in this case, like a research assistant or like a brainstorming assistant, you can also use it like an editor. And that raises all sorts of questions for writers like me. I mean, exactly like me. The Atlantic just published its AI policy a few days ago. It raises a lot of really important ethical questions. AI policy. Yeah. How do we talk about, how do writers like me and other people at the Atlantic talk about their use of AI? Is it just like Google where I would never disclose that I Googled something to research it? Or is it kind of like a person where if I took a paragraph from a book, that's clearly a copyright infringement of the book. That's not honestly fully human. Like there's so many messy questions when the future of artistic and creative work becomes more chimerical. It's not merely human. It's like human plus monster. That's a very, very strange future to begin to bring. Yeah.

So I had a friend, I have a friend who's in a company that invests in different businesses. And he said a lot of the businesses right now, the small startup stuff for all AI based, right? And he was telling me, and this is when I ended up calling you a day later because I was like, what's going on with this stuff? He was like, yeah, in like three, four years, there'll be some bot of you that listens to all the podcasts you've done, is able to absorb all of it. Maybe they even look at all the writing you've done. They create some sort of bot version of you. And then somebody after a Celtic game could be like, I'm going to talk to the Bill Simmons bot and see what he thought of the game. And