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The latest season of Black Mirror has an episode that kind of predicts where this sort of thing is heading...
Black Mirror S6E1 Spoiler
A Netflix analog uses a futuristic equivalent of AI to generate shows targeted specifically at individual users. It uses data mined from the user's devices to get insight into the user's life, and uses that as the basis for the show.Yeah Joan is Awful was good.
Thing is though: even AI wouldn't be able to do that unless there was someone/something actually watching every moment of Joan's life. Then they could feed that into the AI and be good to go.
But I was also really, REALLY unsober when I watched it, so that might have been addressed and I can't remember.
The show did address it:
spoiler
It was her phone and "smart" devices; it was implied that some kind of Amazon Echo / Alexa / Siri style service was listening in on her entire life and that that was what was being used to generate the show.AHHH that's right, I completely forgot that.
I need to stop being so drunk and stoned when I watch shows lmfao
Hey, that's alright. Depending on the show, I could see that being a big improvement to the experience!