Well... call me an hypocrite when it comes to AI, but I've reviewed by original stance on ChatGPT since I've started using it at work.
In the case of my screenplay, it does serve a purpose to correct my mistakes and make my writing leaner, more concise and more focused. As a non-English speaker, it will help me understand my writing more in the long-term.
How do you feel about it? Can we really use AI as a tool, and not as a crutch for being better writers?
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I have used AI for storytelling and music sampling, but I am a hobbyist. I dont make income from either. Yet. So Im not sure how employers will feel if they hire me/writers who need to use AI to do jobs. Im old enough to remember when non-linear editing software replaced editing flatbeds and replaced/took jobs away from human editors physically splicing film to edit.
That's all AI is to me- just a computer tool to replace human labor. Whether creative or hard labor jobs. Every corporation I have ever worked at- show biz or non- are always looking to save time & money.
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That is what I have seen too Marcel Nault Jr. and has made my loglines and synopsis much better.
Dan MaxXx That's what I'm afraid of when it comes to AI mostly, for all of us writers in the world. The fear of being replaced.
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I look at it this way - AI may create simple, one-dimensional stories that will entertain a small portion of the people as a distraction in a complicated world, but replacing nuanced, creative, intricate, life-affirming, fun, action-packed, imaginative, romantic, historical, complicated stories requires a level of humanity that "Artificial Intelligence" will never achieve.
Play with it, use it as a spell-check, grammerly tool; and the like; but anyone using it to write novels, screenplays, teleplays, and stage plays, is not a writer, they're a programmer who lost sight of what true art is all about: the human heart and mind. And I have no problem with anyone going this route; it's their own choice to make - but please do not call it creative writing.
My own $0.02.
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It seems the audience is divided, here and elsewhere: some think that machines can never create authentic emotional stories that connect, and others see AI as a tool that, when used properly, can add value and help improve, or indeed, write screenplays. I sit in the latter camp. I think the assertion about AI never being able to achieve something because it's not human is an article of faith (which of course is also an article of faith). But having played extensively with it, I am frequently amazed at the the apparent insights it can create. I use it to help tune my screenplays - finding plotholes, identifying pacing issues, clunky dialogue etc. Maybe if I was a better screenwriter it wouldn't be so useful. If you don't need help, then AI has nothing to offer. For the rest of us, I think it has its uses, which will only expand as it improves.
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I also write in my second language - English. Since I've started using AI my scripts and any business documents have improved. I used to pay an editor (my son - I call it giving back to sending him to the best schools, of course, he charges me, damn) I've stopped using him. He is relieved since he is the one teaching me about AI. I think it helps improve on something. I would hate for it to 'think' for me, but to improve on what I have in mind, why not. It has saved me money and time.
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Use it as an assistant, not as a replacement. Your competition isn't AI, it's other writers using AI.
2 Critical Things Most Screenwriters Are Missing About AI
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In the end, unless the billionaires of tech have had a change of heart and are now working to benefit mankind instead of chasing money and power, today is not merely a question of agree or disagree about AI helping with your writing. The question is actually more urgent than that when someone suggests AI will only expand and improve: In whose eyes, and by what design, is AI improving? Who are the Gatekeepers? Who decides when improvement is becoming domination? Get these enforceable controls in place before letting AI loose on the world and we might have a chance to remain in control of our destinies.
For now, AI is a kid in a candy store, but very soon, AI may no longer be a "way kool!" thing on your laptop.
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Second CJ Walley's comment.