The collapse of Hollywood was well underway towards the end of 2024.
Three things hastened the demise of the traditional human labor based Hollywood System.
1) There had been recent writers' and actors' strikes.
2) Great advancements in Artificial Intelligence software began to displace human labor.
3) The entertainment industry, in the mid 2010s, became more interested in pushing the DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) agenda instead of focussing on products the public actually wanted.
What human labor could A.I. easily replace in the entertainment industry?
1) Voiceover Actors
2) Physical Actors
3) Set Designers
4) Costume Designers
5) Cinematographers
6) CGI Artists / Programmers
And the list goes on.
The only area A.I. could not seem to replace was in script writing and / or fleshing out story ideas. The complexity and length of scripts and story ideas were still too much for an A.I. software to tackle coherently.
Human Intelligence (HI) still reigned supreme.
That was until AI-Story-Writer.Com came online at the end of 2025.
This was developed in total secrecy and seemed to come out of nowhere.
Hollywood studios who needed a new script would simply put in the basic elements of a story and within moments they would have a complete script ready for production.
For the first time, there was no way to discern A.I. output from that of a biological human.
They charged $10,000 for each script produced as well as 20% of any future gross revenue earned by their product.
They retained the copyright and all licensing rights to the scripts produced.
By the end of 2027 they had earned $35 billion and were still growing.
We find ourselves at the headquarters of AI-Story-Writer.Com.
Tina Bennett has just been promoted to COO. Even with that title, she had very little access to the technology behind the company's software. That was kept in a vault like room on the bottom floor, to which only the founders, the CEO and CFO had access.
Little do her bosses know that she has nefarious plans.
She hides one Friday night and waits until the building is empty, except for the security guards.
She sends a sleeping gas through the vents and watches on the security cameras as the guards gently fall asleep.
Her plans are to enter the highly guarded central computer structure, the heart of AI-Story-Writer.Com’s software, and extract the main code and make off with it.
She has studied all of the alarms and safety systems, and now has easily dismantled them.
She has a body camera broadcasting video to a private server of her attorney to be used in case anything goes wrong.
She makes her way down level by level and she now stands at the door to the computer’s core operating system.
The door is like that of a bank vault.
She has circumvented the security system by replacing her retinal scan with that of the CEO.
She puts her eyes against the retina reader and with a loud WHOOSH! the door starts to open.
The room is too wide and high to see where it begins or ends.
There is a small glass bathtub in the middle.
She enters the room and screams: “Dad! I knew they had taken you!”
Her father is floating in that tub, only his face above the water.
His eyes are open and darting wildly in every direction, yet he seems to be unconscious.
His head is shaved bald.
Wires are running directly into his brain through his skull.
There are computer screens as far as the eye can see.
They are showing users entering script requests and then receiving output.
Tina Bennett (actually born Tina Jenkins), felt that the scripts being produced were too much like her father’s writing.
She knew there was no Artificial Intelligence that could replicate her father’s Human Intelligence and Creative Intelligence.
The owners of AI-Story-Writer.Com had kidnapped her father, put him in a state of suspended animation, and implanted neural links directly into his brain.
All script requests were fed directly into his brain and his brain produced the output.
She pulled out her phone and sent a text to men waiting outside.
She disconnected her father from his life support and cut the wires leading out of his brain.
She didn’t know if this would kill him, but she had to take that chance.
A surgical team was waiting at a nearby hospital to perform the delicate operation of removing his neural link implants.
In a few moments the extraction commando team she had on standby was in the computer core with them, wrapping her dad in warm blankets, strapping him to a gurney, and racing to the outside of the building where a chopper awaited them.
Timothy Jenkins had gone missing towards the end of 2025.
He was a CPA by trade who loved to write. He seemed to have endless story ideas and he would post them on a website he thought no one significant would ever notice.
He vanished into thin air one day.
His daughter’s instincts always told her foul play was involved.
Now the world knows he never abandoned his family, employees or clients.
The owners of AI-Story-Writer.Com were found dead by authorities.
Tina was a thorough girl. Almost as thorough as her father.
