Pipeline

Can humans actually write books?

The question has never entered Chris’s mind. After all, he inhabits the automated utopia of the 22nd century, where cinematic universes are cranked out by the minute.

Chris does a lot of that cranking himself, in fact, and his burgeoning empire of AI-powered content pipelines stands poised to engulf the entirety of entertainment.

But one day he runs into a problem with no automatic resolution …