{"id":224580,"date":"2025-10-19T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:02:08","slug":"wwe-to-bodyslam-the-human-spirit-transition-into-ai-based-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224580\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE to bodyslam the human spirit, transition into “AI-based storytelling”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-running wrestling outfit the WWE has revealed its intention to enter a new era of \u201cAI-based storytelling.\u201d Per a report in the Wrestling Observer<\/a>, the entertainment company recently hired former Buzzfeed guy Cyrus Kowsari to serve as its new senior director of creative strategy, i.e., the guy whose job it will be to cram artificial intelligence into every inch and crevice of WWE\u2019s creative singlet.<\/p>\n

Kowsari\u2014who also spent several years at MMA company ONE\u2014was introduced to WWE staffers back in September by chief creative officer Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque, who called him someone who would lead the company into an \u201cinevitable\u201d \u201ctransition into AI-based storytelling,\u201d as well as fronting a push to \u201cintegrate AI into creative services like video and graphics.\u201d The latter of which, we can kind of\u00a0get: If you\u2019re not that worried about things like quality, respecting copyright, or the environment, AI can\u00a0crap out a lot of graphics really quickly. But the idea of letting AI write storylines for what is still one of the planet\u2019s biggest wrestling promotions feels aggressively silly, especially when we\u2019re talking about a form of entertainment that has had to fight off years of allegations that its storytelling was slapdash and inconsistent.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the\u00a0Wrestling Observer\u00a0piece cites reporting from the site\u2019s own Dave Meltzer, who wrote in his regular wrestling newsletter that recent attempts by WWE to use writing AI to generate storyline ideas produced unusable nonsense, with the models having little ability to keep track of, say, which wrestlers actually worked for the company. Again, you probably could filter through the massive amounts of garbage you\u2019d get with this approach to find a usable idea created by jamming together five old ones. Which feels ridiculously harder than just stocking a writers room with a small collection of people who actually know the company\u2019s output. But, hey, what do we know? We\u2019ve never even suplexed one\u00a0person through a folding table. Maybe this really is the future of wrestling.<\/p>\n

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