{"id":219160,"date":"2025-07-31T16:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/amazon-has-invested-in-netflix-with-ai-streaming-which-allows-viewers-to-generate-their-own-series"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:10:22","slug":"amazon-has-invested-in-netflix-with-ai-streaming-which-allows-viewers-to-generate-their-own-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/amazon-has-invested-in-netflix-with-ai-streaming-which-allows-viewers-to-generate-their-own-series","title":{"rendered":"Amazon has invested in \u00abNetflix with AI\u00bb \u2014 streaming, which allows viewers to generate their own series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-has-invested-in-netflix-with-ai-streaming-which-allows-viewers-to-generate-their-own-series.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fable, a San Francisco-based startup, has created a new streaming service called Showrunner, which is touted as \u00abNetflix with AI\u00bb. Its main feature is that viewers can create scenes or entire episodes for TV shows from scratch \u2014 using simple text prompts for artificial intelligence. The idea may seem dubious, but a tech giant like Amazon believed in the project\u2019s potential and invested an undisclosed amount in Fable and the development of streaming.<\/p>\n<p>Showrunner currently operates in closed alpha version with 10,000 users (another 100,000 are on the waiting list) and offers two original \u00abshows\u00bb \u2014 storyworlds with characters that users can direct into different narrative arcs.<\/p>\n<p>The first, titled \u00abExit Valley\u00bb, is described as a \u00abFamily Guy-style television comedy set in Sim-Francisco, poking fun at artificial intelligence leaders Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others\u00bb. Second, \u00abEverything Is Fine\u00bb, in which a husband and wife have a big fight while going to Ikea, and then are transported to a world where they are actually divorced and have to find each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fable, a San Francisco-based startup, has created a new streaming service called Showrunner, which is touted as \u00abNetflix with AI\u00bb. Its main feature is that viewers can create scenes or entire episodes for TV shows from scratch \u2014 using simple text prompts for artificial intelligence. The idea may seem dubious, but a tech giant like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}