There are a lot of open questions about how GenAI will affect the media business (some of which I outlined in How Far Will AI Video Go? and a recent presentation). Most important, we don’t know how good the technology will get or to what degree consumers will accept it, and for which use cases. There are still critical legal questions around the... See more

The merging of personalisation and generation represents the ultimate optimisation for media production. Everybody satisfied, all of the time.

But such a simplistic optimisation overlooks the broader implications – those that differentiate entertainment from culture. They inspire a cascade of questions, such as how is human culture changed if we

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When I say “everything is turning into television,” what I mean is that disparate forms of media and entertainment are converging on one thing: the continuous flow of episodic video.