I've only seen the first episode, where there only small hints that the flashbacks aren't set in 1950s.

Now tell us how long it took to put this together, what all the data processing time cost and compare that to the day or two to pay a competent editor to put a recap together.

I swear half the things these companies want to replace employees with is literally just malice, they just hate having to acknowledge some people have skill syou have to pay them for, it eats the executives up. They don't care if it costs more so long as some employees get screwed, they need to know their place.

AI may have found its niche as entertainment in its own right. Let it hallucinate laughable or eerie takes on human-authored TV shows, movies, literature, etc. You'd never want to depend LLMs to be factual; but they seem to excel at makin' shit up, and some of the hallucinations seem quite amusing.

Of course higher utility rates, blackouts, toxic air, and accelerated climate change as a result of powering data centres constitute a hell of a price to pay for these amusements. It might be best to just call th

Then why should anyone put the effort in to watching it?

That's the problem with AI slop. You cut humans out of one end of the equation but don't realize that also is going to remove humans for the other end.

The media executives of the world must think we're all pretty stupid if they think that your average consumer is OK with ever decreasing quality of content. It gets to a point where watching grass grow is more entertaining than confusing moronic slop, and nobody is getting paid then.