As I type, Microsoft Copilot suggests ways to continue, restructure, or even rewrite this very sentence. On the surface, it feels like a small thing, no more remarkable than Gmail finishing an email or Google predicting a search—but small things can have outsize influence.

Just as the steady drip of water on rock can carve out new channel over time, so predictive text has already reshaped how we write. Research from Harvard has shown that predictive text systems do not just make texting easier—they change the content of those texts, reducing lexical diversity and making our writing more predictable.

This flattening effect is beginning to extend beyond language. Filmmakers have been worried for some time now about the rise of “algorithm movies”—movies whose form and content are dictated b

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