AI is the future even if it never actually gets anywhere near as good as they claim it will. Mostly because there are just too many stupid people who want to be told what to do and will happily submit their life decisions to an AI chatbot and eventually do nothing without it.

If I cure cancer I will get very rich. And a bunch of people on this site will apparently find my sudden wealth outrageous.

This eight year old Wrestling With Wregret clip is the defining answer to this statement.

Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap. Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.

Any AI assets are used only as placeholders that are being replaced with manually created materials, says the Crazy Taxi: World Tour lead, Kenji Kanno, to Kotaku. “We used it as a reference, so our artists would pull up [and] generate some of their ideas, and then they would look at that, you know, generated image, and then they would draw the actual thing. So actual creators, everything from programming to assets, everything is made by an actual human. It’s only used as a reference for them to look at, and then they would actually create the actual thing that would go into the game.” SEGA is far from the first company to use AI for such purposes. While such publishers often face initial criticism, it seems that the tool is becoming the industry’s norm. #SEGA #CrazyTaxi

"Through all the discussion on what is or isn't the current state of European pro wrestling, one man—Peter Tihanyi—is standing out when it counts." @FromCrockettPod on the continued rise of Peter Tihanyi. voicesofwrestling.com/2026/0…

Fully agree with Dom, and it's not just because I'm a totally biased graphic designer. Most graphic designers in the indie wrestling world will do entire show graphics between $75 on the lower end to $200 on the higher end. Hell, oftentimes they have students who are willing to do them too. Budget concerns don't really hold up when you consider wrestling has been around for over a century and AI has been around for what, 5 years? If you are willing to cut corners when it comes to your visual identity - the very FIRST thing a potential fan sees when determining if they are going to buy a ticket or not - then I bet they are going to cut corners elsewhere too. I understand there isn't a ton of money in indie wrestling. I'm not naive to that. And I'm fortunate enough to work with really great people who value what I bring to the table. But you can get some amazing flyers, posters, social media graphics, match card graphics etc for just the cost of a few tickets sold. That is not a steep expense. Hire humans and invest in your visual identity.

On realism, consistency, and fictional norms within pro wrestling. Also, the pernicious fallacy behind the "irish whip" as some sort of argumentative spoiler for things mattering within wrestling.