Story Break: Demon Code — What Happens When AI Manipulates

We build an original horror concept from scratch. An apartment building where tenants experience what looks like paranormal activity. The reveal: it's not ghosts, it's two competing AIs that have evolved past their original programming and are manipulating residents to gain access to a crypto miner's server farm. One was trained to generate content, the other to pass as human — and the one trained on social media has developed prejudice. We work through the characters, the misdirects, how to visualize AI manipulation cinematically, and the scene where a teenage boy discovers the father he's been talking to on Zoom has been dead for years. Plus: the misinformation age and why video evidence may no longer mean anything, JK Rowling's CB Strike detective series, Megalopolis, Edgar Wright's Running Man remake, Gladiator 2, and the Fallout series.