… It’s about a woman named Joan who’s sort of
like
a mid-level manager at what appears to be
a big Silicon valley tech company,
and she discovers one day that
unbeknowst to her
there is a TV show being made about her life
starring Salma Hayek as her and basically
this show is running on this
fictional version of Netflix called Streamberry
using some kind of
like
generative AI quantum computer that can
like
take the things that
she is saying and doing
and put them into a TV show that’s basically
like
a one-to-one representation of her life.

Yeah, it was sort of
like
talking to
like
your most conspiracy-minded friend
… and I always just kind of love that
kind of behind-the-scenes
detail because it’s so easy to
like
appreciate the effort of someone who
like
sat in a little hut in the wilderness for six months to
like
get the perfect shot of the snow leopard
on the one day that it
like
emerged and tripped the camera sensor,
like
that is the kind of delicious detail that
just makes it so much more enjoyable
knowing that someone spent all that
effort just to get that
one shot that
you saw on your TV,
like
that is the kind of thing that
makes me think that
AI-generated movies may be a long way off.

(Transcribed from The Hard Fork, a New York Times podcast about technology)

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