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  • “Hollow Pursuit” suggests that there’s no awareness for any kind of social problems surrounding the holodeck and content generated there. Which is kind of silly. So I think the correct answer is probably that the authors did not think about it at all. But humans in Star Trek live in a quasi-communist society, so it would probably just be common practice that creative works are owned by the public. You probably don’t have much of a choice if you want to publish your works. However, you practically never see any contemporary human literature or something like “holo novels”. So my personal ad-hoc theory is that gen AI at this level has killed the literary process as a whole among the human race.


  • I have a theory here:

    There is definitely problematic gen AI in the Star Trek universe, but it’s only ever adressed through the holodeck. It’s made pretty clear that everyone can create programmes there with simple voice prompts. It has also been shown that there are no formal rules for using the likeness of living people in those programmes. This is an oversight in my opinion because that problem would be a common concern. The existence of this kind of technology suggest that any kind of entertainment media can be easily created on a prompt, even through the ship’s computers.

    On the other hand, we rarely hear about contemporary human-made literature. When literature is mentioned it’s usually alien or 20th century. Wouldn’t this suggest that it plays no role anymore? Maybe there are still human writers, but the general public isn’t interested in such things, since they can get what ever they want from a computer.

    So my bottom line is that concerning generative AI Star Trek actually shows how problematic it is, probably by accident. I wouldn’t want Star Trek-level AI, but at least it doesn’t kill everyone.