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Writers Guild Tells Members That Studios May Not Be Serious About Restarting Talks to Make a Deal
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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So in the end, it will always be about profits. I feel very sad for every writer who put their whole lives perfecting their craft.
I think it'll mature and real human writing will retain prestige over AI generated content.
I'd imagine AI would make writing easier for writers. I use it to write letters to various government depts for my job. I just take their latest press releases, copy all the text and ask gpt to write a letter requesting what I want and use their output to customise the letter and make it relevant.
It used to take me days, now I get something I can quickly edit to add a bit of human feeling to it and hit send. It's pretty amazing.
Writing a screenplay or television script is not the same as writing a letter to a government department, anymore than painting a portrait is the same as painting a house... One is a work of creative expression, the other is simply a menial task (no offense).
LLMs can help with writing an email, but they're not producing a script worth reading anytime soon, if ever. The job you describe is the type that generative AI will one day eliminate, but not screenwriters—at least not if studios want audiences to continue watching scripted movies and TV.
If studio executives had a creative bone in their bodies, they would understand this fundamental fact.
The only time I've found LLMs to be useful for creative writing is when I need lists of things.
I think it'd be a good tool for a writer. I'd bet Bret Easton Ellis would have used AI to write large portions of American Psycho. All those passages like the ones about Huey Lewis and the News etc would be much easier to write with AI I think.
Sure, you're right in that case. But most novels and scripts don't contain extended encyclopedia-like entries. Besides American Psycho, Moby Dick and House of Leaves are the only other ones I can recall off the top of my head.
I think for formulaic type books it could be used to flesh out a basic plot. Like, Tom Clancy has been dead for years, but he keeps bringing out books...
I even didn't thought of it! Even I'm a big fan of using AI as a tool. As what you've said, AI would really help a lot of these writers, but no to the extent AI would replace each one of them.
I'm also one of the skeptics when AI rose to mainstream, but I swalloed my ego and gave it a try a damn it really helps you a lot!
It will boil down to AI won't replace you, but a person using one will. I've never considered AI as an entity, but as a tool that I can harness and make use of. Incredibly amazing