{"id":34225,"date":"2023-12-15T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/?p=34225"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:52:24","slug":"ai-isnt-screenwriters-enemy-in-fact-it-can-be-a-creative-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2023\/12\/15\/ai-isnt-screenwriters-enemy-in-fact-it-can-be-a-creative-superpower\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Isn’t Screenwriters’ Enemy \u2013 In Fact, It Can be a Creative Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time moves on, and so does technology \u2013 and that latter movement has the capacity to upend what have become traditional ways of doing things. That seems to be one of the concerns of the Writers Guild of America. Amid the issues<\/a> screenwriters are striking over \u2013 wages, compensation, viewership-based residuals, staffing shortages \u2013 the union also seeks to \u201cregulate<\/a> <\/strong>use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies,\u201d a direct response to the explosive growth of writing tools like ChatGPT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainly, the WGA seeks assurance that AI tools not be used to write or rewrite literary material, nor be used as a source for material. But this quest is misguided. AI tools that produce text don’t \u201ccreate.\u201d As ChatGPT itself will tell you if you ask it to predict something, its database parses the web for data through September 2021 \u2013 meaning that it is basically doing nothing more than assembling existing data into a readable form. In other words, it doesn’t produce anything that anyone searching the web could not have found themselves \u2013 except that ChatGPT does the work far faster and in a more organized way than a human could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such, it’s really just a research tool \u2013 and banning it from suggesting ideas for scriptwriters would be tantamount to telling journalists in the late 1990s that they couldn’t use Google to research articles. Sure, a lazy journalist could cut and paste sentences from different articles, but the result wouldn’t be much good; writing, whether for news or for scripts, requires a creativity that AI tools just don’t have, at least right now. Anybody can feed ideas into automated AI-based text engines like ChatGPT \u2013 which can spit out a script complete with characters, scenarios, even song lyrics. But at their best, these products, based on existing content, are a new twist on the same old story. Only humans can create new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said that, these generative AI tools, especially as they grow more advanced, can be powerful tools to help talented screenwriters who learn how to use them well. Just as Photoshop didn’t put photographers out of business but rather provided enhanced photo-editing skills, which let them utilize their skills to produce amazing results that would have been impossible otherwise. Good photographers learned how to make the most of the advanced editing tools provided by Photoshop, and good writers will learn how to utilize the tools offered by advanced AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screenwriters need to stop fearing AI and learn now to use it. For example, a writer developing a scene about a break-in could use generative AI tools to try out new, creative break-in methods that are perhaps impervious to detection by current police methods. Using data about how police currently investigate break-ins, generative AI could come up with ways for crooks to compromise security systems that current police capabilities aren\u2019t capable of detecting – bringing a new, fresh storyline to a genre where there is a great deal of repetition, if not outright duplication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI then, isn’t the enemy \u2013 and in fact, it can actually help jumpstart the creative process; systems can aggregate ideas and scenarios that have already been used, presenting them to writers who can use the data to move old stories in new directions, saving them time on research. And because computers aren’t union members, writers \u2013 who can legitimately take credit for their own ideas, even if they got some help\u201d from AI \u2013 can keep all the money they earn. The Guild has legitimate concerns, but AI need not be one of them. Instead of stifling creativity, AI can be the fuel for a new golden era in TV and the movies \u2013 making them more articulate, more sensitive, more relatable, and more powerful.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this contributed article, Ben Pines, director of content at\u00a0AI21 Labs, discusses how generative AI can help screenwriters—not put them out of business, a concern that many have expressed and which is also among the reasons the Writers Guild of America went on strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10531,"featured_media":33235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,182,180,61,67,56,97,1],"tags":[437,324],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAI Isn't Screenwriters' Enemy \u2013 In Fact, It Can be a Creative Superpower - insideBIGDATA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2023\/12\/15\/ai-isnt-screenwriters-enemy-in-fact-it-can-be-a-creative-superpower\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AI Isn't Screenwriters' Enemy \u2013 In Fact, It Can be a Creative Superpower - 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