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2025-10-10

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[2025-10-10 Fri 04:41]

via @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org:

I fucking love David Simon (creator of The Wire). Being interviewed by Ari Shapiro on AI.

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The kind of interview where the interviewer is ensuring there are plenty of spots for an interviewee to be outrageous. It’s a skill, for sure.

Original 2023 Ari Shapiro interview w/David Simon on the topic of AI, with a more tempered conclusion:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1177569966

I mean, if a writer wants to play around with AI as the writer and see if it helps him, I mean, I regard it as no different than him having a thesaurus or a dictionary on his desk or a book of quotable quotes. Play around with it. If it starts to lead the way in the sense that a studio exec comes to you and says, AI gave us this story that we want, that’s not why I got into storytelling, and it’s not where I’ll stay if that’s what storytelling is.