if ai wrote the thing, you’re not a writer! you didn’t write it!
hey! i wrote the prompt! took me ages
just ask chat peepee to write the prompt!
In one sense, i agree.
But hollywood scripts are insanely formulaic. They have the upbeats and downbeats of the story mapped out to minutes. I’ve heard of scripts getting feedback like, “that’s too exciting for 14:30, it should happen at 16:00 instead.”
I don’t want ai to be putting writers out of work, but writers are already just choosing which words to slot into the same basic structure again and again.
Writing hollywood blockbusters might be close to an ideal use case for a token-based large language model.
No, the fix for studio meddling is not AI writing.
They can fuck out of the writer’s room and let the a good product come out of it. If they’re hiring good editors and musicians/composers, they’ll be able to do all that without cramming “AI” into the writer’s room.
Let creative people be creative, for flying fuck’s sake.
This “all movies are bad now” shit is so tiring. Bad movies have always existed, it’s not new. There are lots of excellent films being put out all of the time if you pay attention.
I said that hollywood blocbusters are formulaic, not that all movies are bad.
some of the most recent family guy episodes, have been suspected of using AI.
I bet even the writers are getting sick of making the same 5 minute hurt knee joke every season and are farming that out.
Have they had a ten minute chicken fight that occurred during a ‘remember that one time I met…’ flashback that results in a five minute knee joke that ends in an over the top musical production that sounds like every other song written for the show?
If everything is formulaic then the success must be determined by something else. Many say that true art comes from overcoming limitations.
Success in hollywood blocbusters is determined by how many people will pay to see a certain actor.
I was talking about art. That still happens occasionally in Hollywood. People forget bad films regardless of marketing budget but art stands the test of time.
Ehhhh i still kinda disagree. Sometimes you can see ‘oh that’s obvs just brilliant’. Like for all that duchamp tried to get away from “Art”, his stuff is just obviously visually compelling and looks like art.
But for the most part, “Art” is whatever rich people think will hold value. In trad art that means whatever will impress other rich people. Cinema is a bit different, but i think we will still mostly see that films that elites can talk about to impress other elites are what “stand the test of time”.
One of the hosts on my favorite nerd podcast put it this way: it’s like when blogging became easy. The real challenge isn’t the technical setup of hosting a blog. It’s what to write that people want to read.
I am a shit writer. I have always struggled. It took me years after college to get my degree because I couldn’t complete my senior thesis. I would love to write non-fiction, but I suck at it.
I rather never put my name on any literary works over using AI shitty slop. AI can go jump off a bridge.
Why Hollywood pays writers I don’t know! Fire them and use AI entirely! We shouldn’t be waisting money on stories that a 10 year old kid can write again and again for millions of dollars, when AI can do this for maybe hundreds of dollars. Embrace AI!
/J
and yet Anthony Horowtiz just said he uses AI
That genuinely may be an improvement, if I’m remembering how I felt about the Alex Rider books correctly
Seth Rogen redemption arc begins?
Redemption? Why?
Don’t tell me he did something super creepy or said something transphobic. I known he was friends with Franco, but O think he personally didn’t involve himself.
I don’t think he was a particularly well-liked actor, even before the Franco stuff.
Python scripts, on the other hand…
