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It is Thursday, October 16th.

I'll be honest, I really resist having AI people on the town to talk about AI.

There's just so much spin and self-interested positioning going on there.

But we all know how important the topic is for Hollywood, and every AI company is not the same,

of course.

Today we're talking about an interesting one called Fable and their product called Showrunner.

You might have seen some of their AI-generated episodes of South Park that went viral during the Guild Strikes a couple years ago.

And they have a new app called Showrunner that launched this summer.

I'm sure many creators are already wincing at that name.

It's backers,

which now include Amazon, thanks to a recent funding round. They say users are able to generate TV

episode length videos that, here's the hook, uses licensed IP. That essentially means anyone

could create fan fiction twists on their favorite stories or genres

or shows or insert themselves and their friends into the narrative, essentially making them

the hero of any Hollywood story.

They're calling it the Netflix of AI, which sounds great.

They've got some media attention for that, but the plan raises tons of questions,

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