The ongoing strike by Hollywood’s writers and actors has thrown the spotlight over a pertinent issue: how will AI change entertainment? Will producers use AI to write scripts or complete unfinished screenplays? Will digital likenesses make actors dispensable?

In this episode of TechTonic Shift, we discuss 'generative entertainment', and how streaming brought us one step closer to this eventuality.

Note: Show host Rajneil Kamath mentioned Collective Artists Network. It was mistakenly mentioned in place of the Creative Artists Agency. The error is regretted.

Recommended reading:

• Madeline Ashby: Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines (Wired)


• Peter Hong: Drowned In The Stream, an interview with documentary filmmaker Amy Ziering (The American Prospect)


• Michael Schulman: “Orange Is the New Black” Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy (The New Yorker)


• Alex N. Press: Adam Pickets Everything (Jacobin)