Only I’d take it a step further. I’m hoping this all leads toward the myth going back to how it was when it was spread by word - having different endings and beats depending on who is presenting it. The myth will be democratized in that way, with the most popular versions in a society becoming what people want to watch.
In other words, a bunch of anti-intellectual slop only designed to give people what they want. No challenging narratives, no unexpected occurrences, just slop that rots your brain.
I gotta quote George here:
Pleasure’s fun. It’s great, but you can’t keep it going forever; just accept the fact that it’s here and it’s gone, and maybe then again, it will come back, and you’ll get to do it again. Joy lasts forever. Pleasure is purely self-centered. It’s all about your pleasure: it’s about you. It’s a selfish, self-centered emotion, that is created by a self-centered motive of greed. Joy is compassion. Joy is giving yourself to somebody else, or something else. And it’s a kind of thing that is, in its subtlety and lowness, much more powerful than pleasure. You get hung up on pleasure; you’re doomed. If you pursue joy; you will find everlasting happiness.
I know he had pro-AI points later, but we all contain multitudes and shifting opinions.
All the AI tools do is pleasure. No creative joy, just stimulation of the pleasure centers in utter hollowness. If you want what you describe, go to AO3 and see all the human-written fanfic, the ai-free fan films on YouTube, or all the hand-drawn and computer-rendered (not AI) art throughout the web. See people trying to become better at craft, not surrendering to the prompts.