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I don't know if this is what you mean, but I find that "Westworld" hits a lot harder post-ChatGPT.
I remember it taking a lot more suspension of disbelief on release, but now much of it falls into the realm of plausible.
Maybe not the "computable consciousness", but the glitchy hand-wavy "we don't know how it works either" aspect... at the time it seemed like a mcguffin cop-out, and now that's like all the new business models.
The joke there was that Hannibal Lecter is the cannibal serial killer from The Silence of the Lambs.