Screenwriting : Hollywood Nightmare? New Streaming Service Lets Viewers Create Their Own Shows Using AI by Pat Alexander

*Sighs and shakes head* I definitely won't be using Showrunner, Pat Alexander.

Early returns from this and similar platforms are wildly uninspiring. It's almost like tech companies are determined to destroy the nature of media as we know it. Control the news outlets, disperse shared thought, artistic experience, and monoculture, then create a society of independent silos that can't be united ever again.

Hopefully people will get sick of AI movies/shows/videos and studios and companies will stop using it, Pat Alexander.

As far as consumers go, I think this kind of thing that won't be for everyone. Mainly hobbyists and those with A LOT of time on their hands. Many people when they come home want to just decompress and put on something that doesn't take too much thinking. Not sure people like that will want to then have to create their own digital adventure after a hard day's work. Feels like this type of content will grab a piece of the entertainment pie though and continued fracturing of the industry will only tighten purse strings from major studios.

The opportunity for creators piece feels like a two-edged sword as well. Like most tech companies have done, at first I imagine they will offer substantial bonuses and incentives to get talented creators to use their tools. But somewhere deep in the Terms & Conditions, there will be legally ambiguous language that cedes ownership of content created for the platform to the companies like this. They'll own creators' original works and be able to exploit them to infinity. And at a point they'll reach a critical mass of intellectual properties, strip back all the incentives to a barebones floor rate, and being a creative person will be just like being an Uber driver. All the "opportunity," none of the responsibility or liability from the company, and diminishing marginal financial returns for your efforts.

I agree, Maurice Vaughan - it will never rise beyond the gimmick stage, IMO. As a writing tool (spell check, thesaurus, etc...), AI may find a footing in creative writing, but that's as far as it can go. There will be some 1% Eliters who'll see this as a way to make cheap movies with computer generated scripts and films (pay one IT to maintain the machine) to alter opinion and influence culture in their favor (particularly white-washing history and the future), but the people in touch with their own humanity, will tire quickly and look for the TAGLINE: "written, filmed by, and starring actual human beings" on movies they attend and promote. It's up to us with an actual blood pressure to decide if our future is utopian or dystopian.

this is a cheap advertisement for another useless AI service.

Yeah, Matthew Kelcourse. Sadly, I'm seeing I can't get around AI when it comes to researching with search engines and using some programs (like Microsoft Word), but I'll never use AI to help me write/rewrite a logline, outline, synopsis, or script.

It's nightmare fuel for people who don't respect the creative process, that's all.

journalists claim that 90% of the videos created by neural networks are deepfake porn. it looks like this is the main application of neural networks. that's why we don't see high-quality books, comics, clips and films created by artificial intelligence.

Arthur Charpentier To be fair, there's so much porn already out there that wanting to see Nic Cage in a gang bang is probably the only thing that's left.

Just another tool writers gonna need to use, and some of our celebrity peers are using AI, than to hire supporting staff.

The endgame here is money and employment, and mastering the craft with the lastest tools.

Everyone can shoot a movie with an Iphone but give the Iphone to Spielberg, Scorsese, Nolan, and I'm confident their Iphone movies will be better than the field.

The Sony Boss publicly said the company is embracing Al. So if you're against Sony's company mission statement, that is one less major employer for anti-AI creatives to solicit work. Good Luck making a living.

https://x.com/thr/status/1796466712914596179?s=46&t=QE6_iR24yNUu6VbgeFCwNg

Ugh. Why are people trying to create substitutes for the creative process? The whole point of any art is to tap into our humanity. Heavily relying on AI defeats the purpose.

It's so worry-free: write using AI and you'll never have to worry about meetings with those pesky little bipeds ever again. Stay home and off skype, because only email will do. Feed their questions and notes into your computer for AI to create answers, rewrites and responses for you to email back to them.

Or you could be a writer and create. ;-)

I can't stand it.

Remember the amazing streaming service making content for phones? So many people, here and other places said it was the future. Some Hollywood expert sunk 100’s of millions into it.

Or Moviepass or how Netflix was going to

disappear.

Lolololololo…..

Let’s all jump at shadows, once again.

Quibi actually paid a lot of money to creatives. From what I remember.

Which was part of the reason Quibi did not work, along with timing and circumstance. Now Imagine Quibi having unlimited access to an actor's name-image-likeness and a writer's IP for the same fees, except now they can exploit it endlessly until the end of time. They take try after try at cracking the code. Based on sheer volume, they could eventually break-even. Sure it'd be mainly schlock for a while, but like Netflix with House of Cards, it takes only one decent project to turn the tide for a company in the entertainment industry.

This is deviltry.

One of the main things we get from TV shows and movies are other perspectives and points of view that challenge or give greater depth to our own, so I think original creative voices are still safe.

in my opinion, neural networks can well replace stuntmen and make it easier to shoot erotic scenes. otherwise, they are almost useless in the movies.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out! I sent messages to 5 industry pros in the last couple weeks, I've heard back from Zero percent. It's possible I could fund some of the basics needed to produce a pilot, however, no one responded! I will be looking at AI for a teaser/trailer. The ridiculous cost of production is not sustainable, in my opinion!

It is clearly a subject to be following and to be as sensitive as can be! Pat Alexander, thanks for the info. So much going around, glad to see discussions on these matters, concerning circumstances and point of views, as proper assessment is needed. Best to everyone!

I agree with you, Ewan Dunbar.

I agree Rick Vorce we can start to create our own movies, shows, shorts, trailers, series, etc. now with little cost.

Mark Deuce I'm looking into weather this method would interfere with getting an A list actor/actress or not. I believe AI is here to stay but I haven't found one that will do everything I want...yet!

As long as any films/TV shows/Streamers are required to label their project with an AI rating, I'm okay with it. I'll know what to avoid.

Ai cannot create Rick Vorce but enhances what you create and for A listers to jump on tha Ai bandwagon right now is very iffy indeed, but if you have 20 million salary, anything is possible. Cheers.