More concerning than the pending writers strike which has recently been reported as eminent as W.G.A. union members have approved due to ever increasing loss of compensation due to streaming content -- is the very real possibility that studios will use Artificial Intelligence or A.I. to pen scripts. A.I. is already writing poetry alleged to be very good and term papers etc. Artificial vocalization can also be used in animation that is so real sounding it will replace actors. Alice found things to be "curiouser and curiouser" in Wonderland.. Will we all be forever trapped inside a rabbit hole of no escape?
Screenwriting : The Pending Writers Strike and A.I. by Paul Norman Rich
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Just attended a writers retreat and the sense was it's a tool, but not a replacement for writers. Remember ChatGPT and the others are predictive word generators and their data set is based on the past, which means it's influenced by the biases and tropes of past written material.
Tools evolve. In the classic film "2001 A Space Odyssey" hominids became the dominant species when they figured out how to use a bone as a tool, the evolution shown dramatical when it throws it up in the air and in the greatest transitional edit of all time, it becomes a satellite orbiting earth. I imagine a time when writers become editors of a full length screenplay or show written by A.I.
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AI is an aggregate of existing work and therefore not real intelligence. Secondly there is a mass of screenplays, most substandard. Therefore it’s education is based on bad work. It will learn to create bad screenplays.
Since it cannot create real “intelligent” thought. It is 100% a copy and recomposition of existing work. It is one legislative change away from beaching copyright.
Before everyone says that is impossible. There are laws about so many strange things you would never believe it.
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I worked on fuzzy logic in university. It still takes someone to write the code, and a steady stream of formulaic movies/shows will only increase the demand for creative writers.
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A lot of companies are already putting clauses in contracts so that A.I. will not be used. At best it's an assistant to keep writers from working on a blank page. Laurie Ashbourne actually post a solid article on this topic too
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AI is a tool...can't replace managers nor writers because it will never develop a very much human sense important in this business especially... that of a hunch...
I feel like it's most important to make sure the conversations continue about AI, and are constant. AI is not the AI of old and it will only get better. The more we are conscious and public about it, the better.
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Only need to worry if one is named Skynet.