Paul W. Downs

And I think the idea of all of us losing that and just becoming these little like blob bots, these little like blobby blobs hanging out in our blob world, like with our agents doing all of our work for us is really strange.

And I'm the editor of Wired and I think it's really, I'm sorry, like I get a lot of criticism from some of our former fans who don't understand why we're not all in on AI.

Yeah.

And we're not, and for a very good reason.

So I totally understand what you're saying.

I mean, we have seen Hollywood types embrace AI very publicly, right?

I feel like there's a new one every week.

There was this bizarre, like, mini scandal involving Reese Witherspoon a few weeks ago where I was like, why is Reese Witherspoon all over my Instagram talking about AI?

You know, you have Matthew McConaughey investing in 11 labs.

You've got really prominent sort of A-list celebrities out there talking about embracing the technology.

does the industry need a more united front here?

I mean, what has to happen to sort of safeguard the creative process in Hollywood?

And do you feel like that's even possible?

Do you feel like you're sort of screaming into the void?

Or do you feel like there's enough concern and sort of enough will that there is a path forward here?

Let me move on to something a little more fun.

Let's end with a little bit of levity.

I want to talk about fandom for a minute.

So on the show, Debra has her little Debbies.

We love them.