We're talking near-term, distant future is a different matter, I'm talking about within our existing lifetime.

I would like to spend my days off writing ideas for shows I wish existed but don't, and then have an AI show producer make the things I ask for. If I feel like experimenting with a porn game idea I think would work, I don't have to learn how to program, or give someone thousands of dollars to make a prototype that will take weeks to put together, I can just have the AI cobble something together fast, try it, tweak it, and decide if the idea worked or not.

It would be a future where people can tinker with ideas, experiment without cost, try and fail without losing all their free time to a doomed project. People today are afraid to fail because of the high costs of failure when they could instead do what they know will succeed. People go to university, try to get the right job, try to get any job, and only then realize they were sold a lie. It's not because they liked the lie, it's because they liked the security the lie promised, they liked the certainty that an education was a fast-track to success.

In my perfect future AI is the fast-track, it's the thing everyone toys with, it's the thing everyone tries to do something new and interesting with. News headlines will talk about people making a fortune after getting an AI to do all the hard work over the course of fifteen minutes. And because everyone's using it, there's far more immediate success stories than modern universities can claim.

Still, my goal wouldn't be anything that big or important, I'd want to come up with ideas for what the future could hold with AI, let other people figure out how to make the ideas work if the feel some of them are worth trying.

The internet often mocks the ideas-guy, a person who tells other people what to do like they're some kind of director. It's always been seen as a somewhat useless role in that everybody has ideas all the time, it's the actual work that goes into making the idea a reality that's hard, and having an ideas-guy in charge can be hell because one day they might have an idea that contradicts the day befores. In this future, the ideas-guy is actually useful, though the expectation is that they playtest their own products before selling them. Knowing people, they won't, so that's one blight this perfect future has, untested products so long as we can't blacklist individuals that are responsible.

But yeah, there's lots of things today that can't exist. MLP G4 is over, it will never return, and fan's can't just make their own because they don't own the rights. AI generated shows would make it much easier to do so, since profit would no longer be necessary to keep it going for eternity. In this perfect future, I could watch the sequel to the Princess Bride, I could see The Neverending Story 2 if the sequel had been made immediately after the end of the first one. I could watch three seasons of Police Squad. I could see what Heroes would have been like if the writers strike hadn't interrupted it and killed the series off. Everyone has some argument against a show going on forever, the fox and the sour grapes comes to mind though. I wonder if their tune would change if those grapes fell.

That said, I'd love to see a visual novel where the characters generate in real time, the story generates in real time, you can talk to the characters and interact in real time instead of being limited to choices. And I wouldn't have to worry about missing the best paths, there are no paths to miss, no golden route, infinite replayability.