The Delusion at the Center of the A.I. Boom

The HBO show is a prequel to Game of Thrones, and that series ended so badly I don't want anything more to do with that fictional world. But maybe A.I. could change my mind? At South by Southwest earlier this month, Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, said, "Imagine if you could ask your A.I. to make a new ending that goes in a different way." Could A.I. be the solution to fixing every novel and script someone has a problem with--customizing revisions to make them shorter or longer, less or more violent, more or less "woke"? Even if A.I. could make changes to movies and books that you personally find dissatisfying, part of those works' value lies in the shared conversations they inspire--conversations that require opinions about common, historically situated texts.