The Next Sopranos Will Be Made by One Person Using AI

TV has been A/B tested into aesthetic oblivion. The next renaissance won’t come from HBO or Netflix. It’ll come from outsiders wielding AI like a camera.

Television is dead. Not in the sense that no one watches it. In the sense that it has no pulse. But something new is emerging at the margins: the AI auteur.

TV has been A/B tested into a state of affective anesthesia: smooth, frictionless, behaviorally optimized content designed not to provoke, but to pacify. The goal is not to enthrall. It’s to retain. …