Why A.Y. Chan's book, The Legendary Mo Seto, should be a movie franchise or television series

Dear Gossips,

Today in “please make it stop” news, an AI-generated video went viral this week featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting on a rooftop over Jeffrey Epstein, prompting warnings from Hollywood creatives that this will jeopardise opportunities for actual human beings. I know that’s the most pressing concern here but the petty bitch in me is LOLing at the words “he was a good man” coming out of (fake) Brad Pitt’s mouth in reference to Jeffrey Epstein.

AI is affecting every aspect of our lives, and that includes gossip. A recent example: there’s been a photo circulating the last few days of Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton kissing at the Benito Bowl. They were indeed at the Benito Bowl together but they were definitely not pictured kissing. A lot of people believed it though, because it looks real enough and, obviously, it’s very possible that they’ve been doing a lot of kissing and eventually, perhaps, we will get a legit shot of them kissing. But not yet.

And of course that’s the problem. AI advancement is happening concurrently with a rapid decline in media literacy, in combination with bad actors engaged in nefarious digital campaigns to advance their own narratives. Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter published a piece on “the Secret Smear Machine That’s Targeting Hollywood” about the cabal of operatives who’ve been engaging in online warfare with “anonymous slander sites” fueling some of the biggest celebrity scandals – and certain names associated with certain lawsuits keep coming up over and over again.

For those of us who refuse to succumb to the AI overlords though, awareness is obviously paramount, and being that much more discerning, even vigilant, about what we’re consuming. I also liked how Simu Liu reacted to that Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt mess – with judgement.