{"id":252235,"date":"2025-10-26T07:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252235\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:32:17","slug":"wwe-officials-unhappy-about-ai-story-concerns-linger-in-writers-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252235\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE officials unhappy about AI story, concerns linger in writer\u2019s room"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to being dismissed by the portion of the wrestling world that disbelieves anything that comes from the Observer Newsletter and its writer Dave Meltzer, the story drew a refutation from WWE sources of Fightful\u2019s Sean Ross Sapp<\/a> (who has plenty of his own critics and haters, but I digress). That all brought an update from Meltzer in this week\u2019s WON.<\/p>\n

The Observer\u2019s sources at WWE say that upper management at the company were upset that the AI story was out in the world, but internally they didn\u2019t deny it either. These WWE \u201chigher-ups\u201d are said to have tried to focus on uses of AI other than for writing television shows, some of which Fightful\u2019s report covered. Meltzer\u2019s update addresses that directly:<\/p>\n

Although that\u2019s true, as last week\u2019s example showed, the idea is also for scripting shows. Right now publicly the idea is that AI will be doing the job of a writer\u2019s assistant. But that\u2019s the present and not the plan for the future. AI is studying the creative process and Cyrus Kowsari [the former Buzzfeed exec hired to lead WWE\u2019s AI push, and liaise with the Trump White House<\/a>] is studying the creative process.<\/p>\n

At the production meeting covered in the WON\u2019s previous report, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque did tell his team that no one in the writer\u2019s room would lose their job to AI, and that Kowarsi would be focused on integrating AI into \u201ccreative, video, graphics and storytelling\u201d.<\/p>\n

But that hasn\u2019t stopped some writers from worrying about their job security. That has understandably been an issue since TKO took over<\/a>, as internally many believe WWE\u2019s parent company \u201chas no loyalty at all to anyone\u201d. But Triple H, Seth Rollins, and their inner circles working people backstage over the summer about Rollins\u2019 leg injury<\/a> supposedly eroded trust even more between the rank-and-file and management.<\/p>\n

So writers\u2019 job concerns linger for those reasons, and because of AI. Because even if AI doesn\u2019t force out any current writers, WWE\u2019s usually learn the job as assistants. Since many of the tasks WWE is hoping AI will do are currently done by assistants, one of Meltzer\u2019s contacts said the feeling is \u201ceven if it just eliminates some entry level positions, that would mean fewer new writers being trained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether they\u2019re done with the intent of using them or just as an early step in the overall project, the WWE AI tool\u2019s early attempts at creating storylines are still said to be laughably bad<\/a>. The belief is that\u2019s because they\u2019ve only been trained on the company\u2019s own creative, aka Vince McMahon-booking. WWE seems confident it will improve over time.<\/p>\n

Give us your updated thoughts on WWE\u2019s possible use of AI in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to being dismissed by the portion of the wrestling world that disbelieves anything that comes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74,4366,94185,8316,4367],"class_list":{"0":"post-252235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-wwe","13":"tag-wwe-nxt","14":"tag-wwe-raw","15":"tag-wwe-smackdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}