I was thinking about plays in a theatre and how when we watch actors we're also participants. We suspend our reality to watch a story's reality.

When we read a book, we're imagining the world and the people that story takes place in.

Even listening to stories we're imagining worlds, we're participants as we aren't passively taking it in.
It's all sharing our time and imagining. It's social.

Which I think is part of the reason AI slop feels wrong to so many of us. It's not social at all.