Hollywood writer's strike: Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT
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Hollywood writer's strike: Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT
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Widespread concern over chatbot writing scripts
Not even six months since the release of ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence is already prompting widespread unease throughout Hollywood. Concern over chatbots writing or rewriting scripts is one of the leading reasons TV and film screenwriters took to picket lines earlier this week.
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Writers on the picket line
The Hollywood writers' strike broke out this week over pay, but the refusal of studios like Netflix and Disney to rule out artificial intelligence replacing human scribes in the future has only fueled anger and fear on the picket lines.
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AI mimics human conversation
With their rapidly advancing ability to eerily mimic human conversation, AI programs like ChatGPT have spooked many industries recently. The White House this week summoned Big Tech to discuss the potential risks.
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Plagiarism machines
AI chatbots, screenwriters say, could even potentially be used to spit out a rough first draft with a few simple prompts ("a heist movie set in Beijing"). Writers would then be hired, at a lower pay rate, to punch it up.
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Writers Guild of America
The WGA's basic agreement defines a writer as a "person" and only a human's work can be copyrighted. But even though no one's about to see a "By AI" writers credit at the beginning a movie, there are myriad ways that regenerative AI could be used to craft outlines, fill in scenes, and mock up drafts.