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Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/television@piefed.social
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    some of the most recent family guy episodes, have been suspected of using AI.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I bet even the writers are getting sick of making the same 5 minute hurt knee joke every season and are farming that out.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    If everything is formulaic then the success must be determined by something else. Many say that true art comes from overcoming limitations.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Success in hollywood blocbusters is determined by how many people will pay to see a certain actor.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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".

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