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Oct. 15, 2026

Craft Is the New Luxury: Sam Altman's Movie, HarperCollins' Secret AI & the AI Wife Nobody's Buildin

Why do AI companies keep pitching dinner reservations when people want an AI wife, and why are book publishers hiding their AI use? On Meme Team, the pop culture marketing podcast, Sonia Baschez and Christina Garnett (fractional chief customer officer, Pocket CCO) break down Sonia's viral "AI wife" post and what founders got wrong in the replies, why everyone has to be a creator now and why craft is the new luxury, WIRED's report that HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette are quietly using AI, and why Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg lost control of their own stories to Nathan Fielder, Luca Guadagnino and Aaron Sorkin.