Opinion | In Hollywood Strike, AI Is NemesisSource: The Wall Street JournalDate: May 5, 2023″The BBC even commissioned ChatGPT, an AI language model, to create opening monologues for late-night programs affected by the strike. This has sparked indignation…”Greg’s WordsThis is just the beginning and it seems almost ‘cosmic’ with so many influences converging onto this point in time; the fear of covid, remote working, the restructuring of commercial real estate, artificial intelligence’s impact on knowledge workers, and now a strike by a vulnerable segment of the job market, writers. Bad timing.It doesn’t take much to favorably compare the most rudimentary content created by ChatGPT with newscasting, copywriting, and scriptwriting. The AI does well enough without much prompt engineering – give the controls to directors and watch the number of soap operas, sitcoms, and nightly talk shows quadruple overnight. With less cost and just as much revenue.AI doesn’t get rid of people, it eliminates rote and mundane processes like creating a treatment, an outline for a show, and creating a script.So I tried it, with a little help from the AI in the Sky:”You are a Hollywood writer with decades of experience writing sitcoms for TV. Put together a treatment and…
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