In the future, artificial intelligence has taken over the entertainment industry, replacing human actors, writers, and even executives with AI counterparts. Now, the last remaining human workers, the AI programmers who design and maintain these systems, are striking to demand fair compensation. The programmers argue that their work is essential for the industry’s functioning, but they are being underpaid and exploited. The strike has raised concerns about the authenticity of the audience in this AI-driven entertainment world, suggesting that most viewers might be bots. The strike highlights the ethical and economic implications of unchecked automation and raises questions about humanity’s future role in a world dominated by AI.

This podcast play was generated though Notebook LM. Claudia wrote a summery of the play, fed it into chat gpt, and then fed those results into notebook and this is the result. The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.