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Is it good?
That's really all I care about at the end of the day. When I watch a TV show I've never really cared who the scriptwriter was or what their personal history or intent behind the story whatever. I just watch the show, and if it's a good story I enjoy it.
I know AI's not well liked in these parts and a lot of people are of the opinion that AI writing can never be "good." If that is indeed the case then there's no risk of writers losing jobs to it.
But what if it turns out that things other than humans can make those things?
It used to be a commonly-repeated argument that no computer would ever best a human grandmaster at chess. Or a top-ranked go player. CGI actors would never be indistinguishable from the real thing. And, recently, that AI couldn't depict plausible hands. I wouldn't be so confident that AI can't tell good stories at some point soon.
Who's "you people"?
Also, did you watch the Matrix? The villains were not clear cut. There were machines who were sympathetic to humanity and humans who were traitors, and they had complex motivations. The Animatrix made it clear that humans were the villains in the original war between humans and machines, and in the most recent movie of the series we see that at least some factions of human and machine were holding to the peace treaty that Neo negotiated and are living in harmony. The situation in the Matrix is complicated.
Unless you just watch it for the cool kung-fu and bullet time, and don't pay attention to the writing. In which case I guess I see why you'd think my criterion of "is the writing good?" Is irrelevant.
You don't know me.
He's literally who I was thinking of when I said there were "humans who were traitors."
Again, you've got a weirdly black and white view about a movie that was written to have a complex moral landscape and ambiguous characters. I think you missed out on a great deal of the movie's meaning and intent.
Ah, irony.
Except that's not what you did. You said I would watch the Matrix and side with the villains.
Turns out you don't even understand who the "villains" are in that movie, though, so it's not a particularly useful reflection.