Even as products like ChatGPT make advances, top film and TV writers are skeptical that the tech imperils their livelihoods, but some think talent advocates should be proactive about setting rules of engagement for writers.
“Do I see this in the near term replacing the kind of writing that we’re doing in writers rooms every day? No, I don’t,” sayswriter John August, who has tested the free research preview and talked about it on the popularpodcast, which he co-hosts with Craig Mazin . Still, he adds, “There certainly is no putting the genie back in the bottle. It’s going to be here, and we need to be thinking about how to use it in ways that advance art and don’t limit us.
Launched by the AI research company OpenAI, ChatGPT in its publicly available iteration can produce polished, if rote, pitches and loglines for films and television shows as well as generic outlines and scripts within seconds.
Still, several writers say the incipient technology shows promise as an ancillary creative tool. ChatGPT could help with time-consuming rote work for writers, like generating potential scene locations or character names; August suggests that non-native English speakers might use it to produce more fluid writing in the language. It can also offer plot or character ideas.writer and former WGA West president Howard A.
There is cause for concern, for some, about future refinements to this kind of technology. Rodman calls ChatGPT’s clear ability to improve its responses the more prompts it receives “a little chilling,” but adds, “Writers should not blind themselves to the ways in which AI technology can be useful in many ways. They should also be aware of the opportunities that it offers employers to do the thing they love best: put downward pressure on fixed costs.
Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of screenplay platform The Black List, doesn’t worry about ChatGPT replacing writers, but he believes it has the potential to upend the
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