Jul 11, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 11 segments
Michael J Strazinski wrote an article called "Silence Where a Story Would Have Been" that argues that the current state of the art AIs are incapable of writing great, memorable stories. Is he right?…
Paul E. CooleyHost
Terry MixonHost
There are certainly people out there using AI to write, but anybody that looks at it knows that it's dreck.
And he wanted to explore both the soft reasons and the hard reasons of why that was so.
And when AI first came up, somebody mentioned me at the writing convention in Vegas saying, AI is going to be the next big thing.
That was my immediate response, and I didn't have anything to back it up because it was just three seconds after hearing the news I said it's never going to happen.
And these articles explore some of the reasons why I was right even though I didn't know those reasons at the time.
I think what Terry is talking about, and this is what Straczynski brings up, is the AI companies have stopped talking about
There are certainly people out there using AI to write, but anybody that looks at it knows that it's dreck.
And he wanted to explore both the soft reasons and the hard reasons of why that was so.
And when AI first came up, somebody mentioned me at the writing convention in Vegas saying, AI is going to be the next big thing.
That was my immediate response, and I didn't have anything to back it up because it was just three seconds after hearing the news I said it's never going to happen.
And these articles explore some of the reasons why I was right even though I didn't know those reasons at the time.
I think what Terry is talking about, and this is what Straczynski brings up, is the AI companies have stopped talking about
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