But the backlash suggests On This Day… is still somewhat ahead of its time, and that viewers don’t want revered storytellers embracing artificial intelligence.
More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.
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Rosemary Counter,
Vanity Fair,
19 Jan. 2026
Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.
Starting in 1965, King served as the cultural director of Mobilization for Youth for five years, before founding NFT in 1970 to give a voice primarily to Black playwrights, actors, directors, designers and others in American theaters.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2026
The script was written by Wish Collective, a group of five women playwrights.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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