Gilligan is right to be alarmed, and I’m with him on this. Creativity isn’t a convenience, it’s a muscle and a lifeline. Letting companies or lazy creators outsource storytelling to models that regurgitate other people’s work doesn’t advance art, it erases the apprenticeship, the mistakes, the weird personal choices that make TV worth watching. Tech bros treating lost jobs as collateral damage while hyping “efficiency” makes my blood boil.

That said, AI can be a tool if it stays a tool, not a replacement. Require full disclosure, protect writers and performers with real contract language, and make “human-made” credits meaningful and enforceable. Otherwise we’ll end up with a flood of soulless content and fewer people who actually know how to craft a scene or a sentence. Call me old-fashioned, but I’d rather fight for messy, human-made work than keep polishing a future of perfectly polished nothing.