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I don't think they have as much power as they used to: There are a lot more writers, and a lot of people, who, if aided by chatgpt, can write competently for TV

I don't think they have as much power as they used to: There are a lot more writers, and a lot of people, who, if aided by chatgpt, can write competently for TV/movies/whatever. Less of it is in person; market is less closed than it used to be. Kind of depends how hard the studios want to fight on this, but I get the sense that they can just take foreign series and dub them for a while.

gamblor956 3y ago
There are actually significnatly fewer writers today than in the heyday of scripted television, when seasons were 24 episodes long and nearly every hour of prime-time was scripted television. As for ChatGPT: ChatGPT is not competent at writing substance. ChatGPT excels at superficial basic structure; the kind you learn on the first day of high school English. Those who have tried using ChatGPT to write fiction have discovered that every story follows the same simple pattern, and it always skips over the most important part of the story (i.e., the part that writers would actually need help with) to skip straight to the conclusion where everybody lives happily ever after. So ChatGPT might help a student with the bones of their creative writing assignment. But it and its LLM ilk will never be a force in Hollywood; that would require a better type of AI that is actually capable of substantive understanding.
- TillE 3y ago
  > every story follows the same simple pattern I very recently tried to get ChatGPT to generate Fritz Leiber style stories, and it would always end with some trite moral or a "bad" character having a change of heart, even after repeatedly asking it to not do that. It's a really good tool for brainstorming, though.