How will AI change wrestling storytelling in the next 5 years

[StringTheory98]

AI assisted writing is already creeping into all kinds of scripted entertainment. And pro wrestling, with its genuinely heavy reliance on ongoing serialized storytelling across dozens of weekly shows a year, is a genuinely plausible candidate for AI assistance in generating angle ideas, tracking storyline continuity, and helping writers manage the sheer sprawling volume of ongoing content a major promotion has to produce every single week.

The likely near term use is genuinely mundane rather than dramatic. AI helping writers track the enormous continuity of who has feuded with who, what storylines are still dangling, and flagging potential inconsistencies across a roster this large, rather than anything replacing the actual creative decision making about what makes a compelling angle in the first place.

The harder and more interesting question is whether AI could ever genuinely help with actual in ring psychology and match structure specifically. Since the best professional wrestling storytelling depends heavily on real time crowd reading and improvisation that happens live in the actual ring, something that seems genuinely resistant to any kind of scripted assistance regardless of how sophisticated the underlying tool eventually becomes.

There is also a real risk worth naming here. That AI assisted continuity tracking makes storylines more internally consistent but genuinely less emotionally resonant, since some of the best wrestling storytelling historically has actually come from embracing contradiction and reinventing a character on the fly rather than rigidly maintaining consistency purely for its own sake as an abstract goal.

Curious what people here think, whether this actually helps struggling promotions manage their genuinely sprawling storylines better. Or whether it risks making wrestling storytelling feel more formulaic and less genuinely spontaneous than the best angles in wrestling history actually have been

[Louise5]

Would bet continuity tracking is the actual useful application here rather than anything creative, wrestling has such a sprawling ongoing narrative across so many shows that a tool just for tracking what has already happened would frankly help writers avoid contradictions. Still an open question