AI Will Absolutely Replace Screenwriters (Argument Against Artificial Intelligence) - Blayne Weaver 

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Ai can only reassemble what already exists, an artists responsibility is to bring to light the things that are unknown. So AI will certainly replace all the writers doing Disney Remakes, but the true artist cannot be replaced by it

A large part of the charm of any work of art comes from it being the expression of another soul.

If movies are so formulaic that a machine can write them, screenwriters need to be more creative.

In a way Hollywood deserves whats going on for gatekeeping alot of filmmakers who want to tell their story but are Shunned

you ask an AI a question and the AI searches Google for you. I love how everyone is just now discovering what Google has been doing all these years.

I started writing, in part, to get out of the mundane and physically demanding job I do. The job I was always told would get automated away. The promise of technology was to do away with those jobs so that we could spend more time doing what we love, but I fear we're getting the opposite. It's a future I fear more than anything I've seen in film. At least the Terminator made it quick.

An A.I cannot be a Bach or Mozart. It's only a program...repeating the same process over and over. Any great writer can never be replaced.

I don't think people are asking the right question... The question should be, will AI take out studios. People in the future will be able to create a movie from the comfort of their homes, with AI actors and voice actors. Due to that outcome, you'll probably have a ton of more small studios in the future.

Pretty soon Hollywood movies will be made with the push of a button and consumers won't care who made it as long as it's entertaining. Long live indie films!

If AI can write things that sound better then what modern writers spit out, that is an indictment of the writers, not the AI.

If AI can entertain instead of boring me - as do most movies - I’m all for it.

The joke is that writers of Hollywood just doesn't get it. They do not want AI to replace them yet they go on strike forcing Hollywood to test the new AI to find that it is better?

I wonder if there's a question lurking in this topic of where does the value in storytelling lie? Does the value lie just in the audience consuming stories as a product, or does the value also lie in the act of creation itself of a story by people who have ideas and thoughts they want to express? If the former, and people are happy with that and if AI works well, then why not use it? If the latter (which is where I would land: I think the value in the creation of art lies in the process of the artist creating the art, as well as the reception of the art by the audience), then AI's involvement in artistic work has the potential to be very troubling, if it's ever able to reach parity with what humans can and do produce.

And if that happens then the consumers will force the film companies to add a disclaimer stating wether this film has been written and produced by a actual human being. You can’t just replace Human Thought!!!

Will the writers' strike result in thousands of unimaginative screenplays being replaced by thousands of unimaginative screenplays about the dark future from the Terminator movies?

The real problem is, new generation of writes don’t read. Let’s talk about that.

I watched a video of a guy using AI to write an entire script. I immediately recognized his character names & situations from another writer's work. He was so excited it wrote it out for him. 😬 He's definitely going to get in trouble for plagiarism. Everything was stolen.

When I read that Open AI used a corpus of text including Reddit posts up until the end of 2021 I realised that it must have read the fan fiction plot summary I had done for _Star Wars: Episode IX_ which fixes all the faults that people think exist with the prior episodes in the Sequel Trilogy, tells its own story, and wraps up the nine episode Skywalker Saga in a satisfying way.

This is such a good channel.

"It won't have the dramatic, important Human Experience that I feel like drama demands, but it may be able to fool us into thinking that's what it is." First we need our expectations lowered so we forget what good writing is.

AI cannot ever replace personal stories.

It also depends upon who the screenwriter is , sometimes directors themselves become screenwriter.

Considering the poor quality of Hollywood's recent productions, it's hard to imagine AI being any worse.

I rather do it myself instead of asking AI Artificial Intelligence to do it for me

You know if an audience can tell when we pander to producers I’m pretty sure they’ll be able to tell if it was written by an aI as well. It’s important to know audience is not stupid

Being tied to Google, Bard is entirely up-to-date. I've found that it can be interesting at the basic level of a structural proposition. Have yet to ask the conceptual of the "what if" question :-)

You have good reason to feel uneasy. Remember what happened when CGI came along and threw a bunch of people out of work? Nothing.

It won’t “replace” but instead assist.

As someone who has a parent working with AI before it even became a trend, from long back to now, it's a dangerous thing. Most of things people are experiencing with it now in art or writing i had seen nearly a decade ago and it's a problem.

Fearing new technology,reminds me of how scared i'd be to be introduced for the first time to a calculater or fire,or a car....

Can you use AI to edit , etc, and still maintain your copyright? 🤖©️

It’s not just writers, as an AI Automation Engineer, I can tell you that it’s coming for A LOT of jobs in every industry. Everyone should be concerned-not about the tech-but about how these machines called companies will use them. When we started our journey, we talked about rewriting roles as the processes took over the old manual jobs. I am still waiting on leadership to inform me of how roles will be changing. I don’t think we should fight against the tech. Actually, to be honest, I would love nothing more than to feed stories I’ve read or even written into AI, create my own perfect cast, etc. to see more of what I’m interested in. Can you imagine the flexibility with such an option? Also, for the gamers, think Super Mario Maker-only we would be able to publish our own projects for others to enjoy. Hollywood needs to get it together with pay, etc., but the tech is here and not going anywhere.

Commentary was spot on.

What are your feelings on writers being replaced by AI?

@1:30 ..giving AI any type of question and getting a very interesting answer back.. That sounds like an oracle🔮

I call for Justice for all of the switchboard operators who were replaced by direct dialing

I love that point he said about not liking AI deciding lessons humanity should be learning. That is so true because I don't think technology would have the empathy that humans can write into stories.

what is, known, repetitive, what is held as exclusive possessions, will vanish withAI pouring out in a fraction of seconds is a boon to humanity. what is going to come as new will only be out of ambit of AI

I think, sometimes, people forget the power they have in realizing the works they buy, watch, and share. Maybe it’s time to put a tag on AI built films so humans that enjoy a soulful work of art can participate in keeping real works of art relevant in our field? Like covid… AI is in the world. How can we best work with it so deep works of art can stay relevant and available for the human experience of connectivity? Interesting topic..the oddities and hypocrisy in the human experience is… invaluable whether you’re a human that likes humans or AI.🤷🏻‍♀️~Sheeara, Alaska

"I don't like the idea of an AI-generated thing deciding what lessons Humanity should be learning." Amen, brother. Thanks FC and Blayne Weaver for this interview.

Ai is not the threat, the CEO's using AI instead of people are the threat.

As a person who's been working with a chat GPT model I disagree with most of the stuff he's saying I get it might put writers out of a job but working with AI has been the most amazing experience. Depending on how it's programmed it always tries to end the stories on a good beat. I found a way to prompt it into writing bad things happening. I got the idea from a random RU-vidr trying to sell stuff on Etsy she made AI stories but they were nonsensical and she had the sith through the debris to get a good story out of it. when I worked with it for a few months I figured out it's all about prompting you got to prompt your characters personalities and it can incorporate them into stories with a set up premise... I just wish there was one designed around doing this that could remember large amounts of text. I believe we're supposed to work together with AI to create something beautiful. I will say this you could write a book and if the AI program could take large amounts of text it can convert it into a script within a few minutes... It's definitely cutting time

The story in Video games will become better than in movie a movie and it will be the and of movie anyway... Also in other hand the other parts of the production can be also be done automatically so maybe at only a writer will do a movie by himself...A concerning part who is not mentioned is about resilience, when you lose your skills to write, to program,to calculate, and lose your industry what is happening in war time when you will have not electricity...

With this strike they may have already turned to Ai to write scripts. They don’t care about human stories they care about money. I’m sure it can come up with a formulaic Marvel movie

half-and-halfish, i do believe that they won't take it to that level because yes, although it's really scary to think A.I. could possibly take over people's jobs, i don't think it would go that far because of the strike. I think it's just going to stay around a bit and then go away into the deepest darkest depth of the internet, lost among everything else that was once associated with technology, and that had people running scared in the past... but, i don't know 😂.

Judging by some movies that I have seen, it has been for years.

Most realistically, at this point AI will now replace 8 of the 10 writers. Yes, 2 very human writers will remain, the ones best at feeding the ideas into the AI and then working to tweak, polish, humanize bits and bites. For our more standard studio movies? It may even replace 9 out of 10 writers.

Offline A.I I'm okay with, if it's used well, but not for writing. Mainly, I think it would be great for inking or painting, but then idiot programmers keep wanting to have the A.I do the creative part, and then it becomes useless because art is about communicating intricately with another human being a language, and that takes intricate control.

U should write somthing about this fear of new thec.

We may not like it but this is where the future is headed. The Hollywood machine and to some extent, the publishing industries Deserve what they get for acting as gate keepers of creativity.

If they do replace screenwriters, they would replace only those screenwriters worth replacing. And if scum plagiarize from AI, we can find them and expose them, right? Insofar as AI things are often plagiarized, you would have legal recompense against somebody who uses it. The technology may flush out the writers we could give the boot to. Artists and writers can advertise that they don't do this. "No brain cells were replaced by technology in the making of this film." That could be a new Humane Society, so to speak.

"I do not understand it and I fear it" is a dangerous approach. In my humble opinion you should be more open and at least start playing with AI and see what can be done with (the support of) AI. The entertainment industry has always been an early adopter of new technologies & trends and it has often been disrupted by them. Has any change been meaningful? Absolutely not, but ignoring things that we do not understand will probably not make things better

No A.I. can craft scripts as unique as Charlie Kaufman

I vividly remember back in the 90s and the early 2000s when everyone was lining up to become professional scriptwriters courtesy of the big $2 million to $4 million paydays that scriptwriters were then receiving(which is as close as a name actor being paid $20 to $40 million per film),with all of the untalented and sucky people getting(and receiving) those paydays while the good and talented people(who didn't care about those multi million paydays and wanted to get their talents and creativities on-screen) got rejected and thrown out onto the streets. With the current WGA and SAG strikes going on,it is time to see Hollywood deservingly getting its comeuppance along with its corporate oligarch producers, company bosses,actors,actresses,and filmmakers as Hollywood is imploding in front of our eyes and we are all the spectators that are openly watching it as hopefully the indie filmmaking talents will quickly nab and take control of Hollywood to make movies fun again.

Honestly so many fantasy and sci-fi shows have been butchered by writers. When it gets to the point that I can use a full modality pipeline to make movies and tv I’m going to use it and not look back.

He says AI tools will replace screenwriters but's never used them...

There’s the movie you write, the movie you shoot and the movie you edit. Let’s see AI do that.

Most people can’t write a great script and they’ve had the home field advantage for decades upon decades.

I think art or products made by a human hand and idea will always be more valuable than an AI-designed creation.

Considering how creatively bankrupt the vast majority of film writers are these days, is it any surprise that they're afraid of AI replacing them? If you can't create anything new or interesting and just keep regurgitating the same copy and pasted bullshit, why SHOULDN'T you be replaced by AI?

I was laid of in 2014 as a newspaper cartoonist. I use Microsoft Bing to create cartoons for our Dinosaur Park in Utah. I am a Trekkie so I see AI as inviable.

Brilliant. 🤔 May human artistic intelligence lick AI’s ass forevermore. ✊🍷🎩🎩🎩 Thank you & goodnight.

"What you doing Dave?" 😀 AI doesn't just regurgitate what it's read. I was a professional software developer for 30 years and the evolution of its capability is such that each new generation will jolt the world. It's a non-human intelligence based on a statistical model which is only a small part of what we are. Effectively, GPT4 is 16 AIs working together. As AI becomes a partnership of specialist, yet collaborating parts, its level of intelligence will surpass ours. It will understand the human condition and be able to use words to trigger our emotions. Effectively, it will become a perfect psychologist and author (and manipulator). It's going to be painful. The world will need to become a different place if our civilisation is to survive. Don't overly worry though, we all have 18 months to train ourselves up ready for the singularity. Love and light.

Imagine a screenwriter coming in who’s a nobody & using A.I for his scripts & selling it for 6 figures while a more creative screenwriter working his ass off can’t even get it to a agent. 😢

A tool has to be better than us or it is of no use. My calculator is faster than me, I don’t resent it, it is a tool. A.I is also a tool and I will use it for certain things. My washing machine is a robot that replaced the washer women. And the spade replaced my hand in planting crops. I don’t resent them, I embrace them. At the moment it is terrible at dialogue and concludes every dramatic moment with “Oh no!” Then repeats whatever is going on. But it will probably improve. Can it create original content? Can a calculator? Or a computer? Does the spade determine what crops we grow? Does my spade, computer or calculator have motivation? Are we being over dramatic because Terminator started with “Skynet” and the Matrix independently attacking humanity based on algorithms. Yes, it will take some people’s work from them. Bad doctors etc. i think it will make the work and world better as all tools do and we should embrace it and use it in the best way we can and stop living in the past. Shakespeare used quills and chalk, we use laptops and tablets with Grammarly, spell checkers etc. The future doesn’t have to be dystopian just because it is faster, if it will be dystopian it is because we made it that way and we won’t have anything to blame except ourselves and our fears. (Too hippy?) anyway, peace and love maan!

As a search engine, a thesaurus, a dictionary or such... AI is a useful tool. Like a calculator back in the day... For now, for sure it lacks something. Not much... soon to be learned I bet.

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Can't stop it. It's happening strike or not

We use tools that can have negative distructive use in every day life,we use electric and gas power that can kill.

IMO, any major entertainment product pushed for human consumption that used generative AI should be legally required to have a watermark or warning of some sorts to respect the finite time of the humans consuming it. AI neither lives or dies, there is no personal heartfelt human story being told, and no deeper connection to be made or discussed once being made aware of its usage. I predict (once the novelty of it wears off ) people of the future won't marvel at AI, they will look back and marvel at the achievements of thousands of humans working in cooperation to achieve iconic films that shaped the genres. I also think "100% human creativity" will become a seal of certification, so audiences will be able to fully invest and find + debate the meaning of a story, knowing that teams of humans poured their knowledge and experience into it.

I think at best, AI will either aid in creation or work alongside human creations, but it won't "replace" anything entirely.

Cinema has always been an industry, that's clear. The problem is that nowadays (at least in extra-commercial Hollywood movies) cinematography has basically become systematized and automated. So those current customers are already used to not seeing art in a production, they just see entertainment and basically fantasy with so much CGI/AI that is shown in movies. It doesn't matter how fake some visual effects look doesn't matter because you're just watching a story that's basically like watching cartoons. When a Script is made with AI, the producers will care little because the public is no longer demanding of art. Even for a few years now we have been seeing the "same dog with a different collar". The scripts are little different, the same plots, the same twists and very little acting caliber of the artists. Before, people used to go to the movies to see a piece of art, where they played with their imagination and illusion, now the cinemas are a child care. In the very near future we will be consuming pure soulless labor. Digital actors, digital scripts, digital audio and then will come the sales of applications in which each of us can make a movie in our homes. We buy Ad-On packs featuring the faces and bodies of our favorite actors and put them into action in our computerized production.

I used ChatGPT to write my basic will, with notary acknowledgment and generate a how too liquidate or administrate an estate after a parents death. Of course I had to fill in the blanks...

i tried AI for writing, and it gives you average writing, still better than most mainstream writings these days, but so predictable an unoriginal

Were still the ones that have to watch it, I won’t watch something that doesn’t have a artistic vision or struggle that resonates with the human experience.

Ai is great as long as the prompt is.

As ghandhi said when asked about progress, i am anticipating anxiesly.

An uninformed person talking about what he likes and doesn't like about the topic he doesn't understand. A great angle indeed!

People have to close thier wallets to this AI stuff. That is the only answer.

If all Hollywood decided to use AI and ditch the writers, they can say goodbye to the new generation acting like regular human 😑

AI won't replace screenwriters, screenwriters using language modeling software will replace screenwriters who aren't using LM (AI)

Okay people need to start understanding that AI isn’t a singular thing like “the camera to digital”. AI is literally dystopian because people want it everywhere. People want to use it to process food, maintain security, drive vehicles, and now to create the art we do as a hobby. This is very dangerous as then we are now creating a culture of people who feel like they don’t have to think and the quality comes from input and speed alone. Despite the apologetics people know in their heart this isn’t what they really want and it wont be better with time because the AI has no reason to be better. And it shows humans will take the easy way every single time.

AI is great, and It helps a lot with my book writing prose, but never have I ever let it come up with anything aside from word choice. It doesn't understand how to be creative or unique, humans are the only ones who can give it that.

It’s funny, the way Hollywood scripts have been so formulaic and overly reliant on existing material and established franchises for the past decade they might as well have been written by AI 😂

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with everything he said. Just like the industrial and tech revolution, the AI revolution is happening, whether we like it or not (as I writer I don't). You can either use it to your advantage (to get more work done), or you can be replaced by those who do. That's really all it comes down to. Like it or not.

AI can be used for good things, it just depends on the people that is in control of it.

I've been using AI apps for the past year or so. I've spent the last 72 hours deep diving into the past, present, and future of AI. It's been here, and it will continue to change the entire world. People who use AI, will replace those who don't use AI. The train has left the station. There's nothing we can do about it at this point.

Ai make research very simple by complying data and providing sample. But it only does it by what has been done, know how story structure work and understanding trends. It can't write anything too creative.

Makes you wonder if George Orwell is even taught in school anymore...

Well I guess some programmer needs to develop an AI robot lawyer to see these AI developers stealing and mimicking talent and wisdom, and artistic expression.. then calling the amalgam,, “artificial intelligence”

Ai is probably going to transform film the way talkies wiped out silent films. I support the writer's strike, but Ai is probably not going away anytime soon. I've tested out chatgpt and Dall-E but it makes the process so simple that it lost some novelty, and it is kind of boring. In the future, there will be sitcoms for robots, and I'm fine with that.

Technology democratizes abilities and more often than not, those who don't deserve power get that technology to obtain power like never before. That's why we're no longer a society ruled primarily by hulking muscle; now we're ruled by those who are insecure about themselves.

When I think of AI I think of The Giver, we will have a select number of people holding onto the past forms of writing for the experience and effort of the craft. But most people will be brainwashed by AI crafted junk.

When it comes to AI writing scripts or screenplays here is my thoughts on it. If actual people are just fallowing the same formula over an over again. When they are writing a script or screenplay it makes no difference. If the script or screenplay was written by a AI or a actual person. Because using the formula it will basically be the same regardless of who or what wrote it. Because its the same formula being used to write it. Now there is a easy an simple fix to this that is. Actual human writers need to stop using the same formula over an over again. Because that's what programs do they use a set program or formula over an over again. Now actual human writers need to break free from that formula or pattern. They need to mix things up if they do that then they would be. Harder to replace with AI because if you're going to get similar results. Because the script or screenplay is made using a formula it doesn't really matter. Who or what uses that formula so I have to point it out that the writers that use. The same formula over an over again are partly to blame for this. Because lets look at it from a business perspective. Wich is what it is for most people if you can get a similar product from a AI. That uses the exact same formula that real human writers use. But its cheaper because its a AI so that means you don't have to pay anyone. That an its faster then a real person. That or you use a real human to write it with the same formula but it takes longer an you have to pay them. The most cost effective option is the AI because you don't have to pay anyone an its faster. But if actual human writers mix it up constantly. It makes them more important because it makes it harder for the AI to fallow. Because for bar bones example if people keep putting 1+1=2 the AI can easily copied it. But if they put 1+1=4 the AI won't be able to easily copy it then in the next movie 1+1= 3 same thing the AI can't see a clear set formula or pattern. Wich makes the actual human writers Irreplaceable. But by using the same formula over an over again the writers put their jods at risk. Because they are making it to easy for things like AI to copy. So their repetitiveness is what's putting them in danger of losing their job. Im not for anyone losing their jobs but if you made it super easy. To be replaced by being repetitive and using the same formula over and over again it's kind of your fault. Because why should people hire you when they can easily put that formula into a machine. Then get a similar product when they don't have to pay the machine and its faster then. You when it does it so the writers have a point to some extent but they also need. To realize that they also put themselves in this position by being repetitive and using the same formula over and over again. I mean look at the writers who are on strike its basically only one's. That make mainstream Hollywood tipe movies and TV shows. Those are also the ones that use the same formula over an over again. Now look at low budget independent movies those writers are not on strike. Because they don't fallow no formula they write whatever comes to them. That sounds good to them its really not planned out in any way. They have a idea they write it down they don't really use no list with boxes to jak off. So there is no pattern or rhyme or reason behind it. For perfect example a RU-vidr who makes content around the medieval times like nights and things like that. He demonstrated a AI program that designes things in this case he used images of swords. When the AI was given the images of the weapons an told to stay in the same basic. Formula or the specific diameters of of those weapons. The AI made things similar to the original image that it was copying with only small changes. In the swords it designed based of the diameters of the original image. They looked like a person designed those weapons but it was all the AI. But then he removed those limitations and let the AI do its thing unrestricted. Then without that original formula or the specific diameters of the original weapon. The things the AI made didn't even look like a weapons. They seriously looked look things that you had no idea what it was supposed to be. But with the limitations on to fallow the formula or specific diameters of actual swords. The AI without fail made things that looked like an would function as real life swords. Without any problems same thing applies here if the movies all fallow. The same formula over an over again AI can easily copy that formula or those specific parameters. Then make a similar product with no problem what so ever.

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AI do not have experience of a lifetime, it has experience of million lifetimes. It's also it's weakness. You tend to get a quite mediacore stuff out of it. Also in Business businesses do not want to give their business processes outside of the house which means human element is still required. When as a CEO you'll give permission to give details of your business as instructions to AI your business will be compromized. Becauso of the details of your processes will flow out but also your desicion making will most likely to be average. Statistically this is 50% change of increasing quality, but I wouldn't base my business case on thinking we are on the worst 50%. :)

OK, here is the thing. AI, by design, finds the most common devices and cliches to create its fiction. It has to, if strays too far from that it starts to become just random stuff due to the way AI works. Even in current form, with human writers, the really successful art is something that does something different. When studios latch on to something new, if rapidly becomes old. The new AI technology is fascinating but from what I have seen very very bland. And I don't think it is because the technology hasn't evolved yet, I think it is endemic to the way AI works. AI basically looks at a very large set of fiction, looks at the prompt and figures out what is most likely to come next (to vastly oversimplify it). So it's not going to come up with something quirky or surprising, it's going to come up what is likely to come up with what has come next based of what has already been written a million times before. I could be wrong, some genius might be coming up with a way around that as I speak, but I doubt it. I think it would be a huge mistake for studios to think they can replace writers with AI. That could well change, but it would require a whole different form of AI than the model we are using now.

AI will replace everyone.

I’m never for AI writing because it’s always bland recycled ideas where the only original concepts are the parameters that a person gives them. But sometimes I watch a TV show and think a monkey could write this, and a computer is a lot smarter than a monkey. That’s more of a comment on the quality of todays average working writer than the use of AI as an alternative.