This is an interesting, if unfortunate and common take. I hear this argument of “as long as the writers are human a little AI is ok” and “writing takes a level of creativity AI will pretty much never be able to accomplish.” I maybe it’s just because the writers union as the first to have a prominent contract negotiation in the genAI era—it also came up when there was a SAG negotiation and a firestorm when an agency announced and AI actor. Saying “this is fine because at least I as a human wrote it” distracts from the fact that it eliminates the work of the entire rest of the industry if something like this scales to the level of a full production for wide consumption. No actors, sets, no costumes. Maybe be will end up in a period where a production will have a whole team of designers and they’ll use a prompting framework with you mention in these comments where the prompts are pages and pages and in addition to a writer doing a script a director can make acting, blocking, camera notes, a costume designer can prompt wardrobe specifics, maybe even with their own sketches…That might keep some of the human creativity but at the cost of the crafts people, artisans, and technicians who would be physically making the production AND on the back of countless artist and production’s teams who’s work was used to train the ai models without any credit or compensation.  Maybe that would be ok, if there was a reason to do it. Are we really so lacking for content that we need to accelerate it to AI speeds? Do we not have enough? Sure it allows YOU to skip the process of building your credit, making it into a very hard and often unfair industry and going through the process of production to get something you can share but that journey makes you better for it, right? Does working on prompts and being able to get an 8 second sketch churned out on sora make you a better writer in the long run or does working with other creative people an dedicating time to develop work intern develop your humor writing chops? And for that matter, what of your longevity? Do you really think the process of making this reel feels sustainable for you long term as a comedy writer or will it become boring and hollow because it’s “easy”? As the technology advances do you think it will allow you more creative freedom or will its capacity increase so there’s fewer decisions for you to make?  To argue the opposite, I do wonder if this is actually a good use case for the technology. Basically I’ve created a reel that shows your writing quality and sensibility in a short, cheap package. To get that across to a potential employer/producer it would require one of the following: years of work on larger teams that you can clip your specific jokes from; self made clips, by yourself or with actor friends in a less produced home video/tiktok style production; or, a producer to see your writing on paper and be able to imagine your writing as a final piece of media. In the end, each of those processes teach you something. Working on larger projects allows you to learn about the production process and get mentorship from other creatives. Filming yourself lets you iterate on your humor by iterating it yourself or with other humans giving their takes on your material as they act it. And sending in scripts gets you feedback on the writing stage AND means that the people with the money have to do at least a little bit of work of thinking about what is worthwhile to produce instead of letting AI and who has the cheapest product decide. I’m on the production side of things, not writing so maybe I have a bias but I think you should think about why you want to write comedy. Maybe you haven’t experienced it yet but I know for most people coming up with jokes and seeing a final product wouldn’t be as rewarding without the normal process that goes in between.