In stark distinction to plenty of Hollywood creatives, Oscar-nominated author/director Paul Schrader posits ChatGPT can write “authentic” and “fleshed out” screenplays.
The Oh, Canada screenwriter posted on Fb that he requested the generative artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to give you an thought for a movie for a wide range of famend filmmakers, together with himself, and that the outcomes have been greater than passable.
“I’M STUNNED. I simply requested chatgpt for ‘an thought for Paul Schrader movie.’ Then Paul Thomas Anderson. Then Quentin Tarantino. Then Concord Korine. Then Ingmar Bergman. Then Rossellini. Lang. Scorsese. Murnau. Capra. Ford. Speilberg [sic]. Lynch,” he started within the submit.
Schrader concluded, “Each thought chatgpt got here up with (in a number of seconds) was good. And authentic. And fleshed out. Why ought to writers sit round for months trying to find a good suggestion when AI can present one in seconds?”
Naturally, the thought didn’t go over effectively with varied commenters, who stated AI must depend on preexistent writers and their materials to craft one thing supposedly new.
Although many within the leisure business have decried AI encroachment, like Nicolas Cage and Cate Blanchett, Schrader has been beforehand constructive about its utilization in filmmaking. In the course of the WGA strike in 2023, the Taxi Driver scribe weighed in on the controversy amid negotiations, claiming that the guild doesn’t “concern AI as a lot because it fears not getting paid” and that AI can produce a brand new episode of CSI: Vegas “in a matter of seconds. And will probably be good, it should cull all of the episodes of CSI for the final 20 years and give you one thing each generic and up to date.”
