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   K. Tempest Bradford (tempest@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 02:41:33 JST K. Tempest Bradford

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   It continues....

   SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

   SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

   SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth?

   SIMON: I mean, what you're saying to me, effectively, is there's no original way to do anything and...

   SHAPIRO: No.

   SIMON: Yes, you are.

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     K. Tempest Bradford (tempest@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 02:41:34 JST K. Tempest Bradford

     Can we revel for just a moment in the beauty of this exchange?

     SHAPIRO (host): OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

     DAVID SIMON: What?

     SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...

     SIMON: You imagine that? (😂 😂 😂 --tempest)

     SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

     https://www.npr.org/2023/05/19/1177194215/tv-writer-david-simon-weighs-in-on-the-writers-guild-of-america-strike

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.