Except I cribbed it directly from SPEED-THE-PLOW

Clearly we're moving in the wrong direction but it's sad that other countries – Canada, UK, Australia, etc. – actually support their film industry and the U.S. does not

So many people I know still aren't working. There used to be good middle class jobs in the industry – and those jobs helped drive the economy from restaurants to retail. It’s like this city is being hollowed out from the inside

The problem with Netflix is that they cancel shows without giving them time to catch on. A lot of people only started watching SEVERANCE S1 after S2 came out because of all the buzz and positive word of mouth. If Netflix had this show not sure if they would have renewed it

That's because it's not trying to communicate anything to you. It's just using predictive text – albeit at a very high level – to identify the next most likely word in a pattern or sequence

I think you can use AI as a sort of automated writing partner to bounce ideas off of or get a fresh perspective as long as long as you're the one doing the actual work

It's its own skill to turn off that part of your brain and plow straight ahead without the inner critic telling you you're doing it wrong

Say what?! Next thing you'll tell me is that we're all supposed to pronounce my favorite cocktail MOW-hi-TOE

Pointless too. If you think an AI can write better than you can, maybe find another hobby – one that you actually enjoy doing

Some of the coverage sites might be using AI but if that's the case, what are you really getting for your money? Seems like just another grift

I will say that jump scares are even more lame on the page than the screen. The big font thing is not cutting it

Is an AI more likely to give good coverage to a script written by a fellow AI or a human? What do you think?

I’m pretty good at sniffing out when something is written by an AI. The writing is dry or dull. It lacks soul. There’s no "there" there. These scripts will probably never get to me. Or at least I hope not. But that raises another rather troubling question:

Here’s another problem. People are already using AI to write their scripts as well. Maybe not the pros, but amateurs and hopefuls for sure. Which only makes the pool of scripts bigger than it already is and makes it harder for writers to cut through the noise.

So what can we do about it? Unions like the WGA have already tried to litigate this in their last contract and will continue to do so. But my feeling is that if people wanna use it, they will and there’s no good way of stopping them. Once the cat’s out of the bag and all that.

Writers will start trying to game the system, not by writing the best scripts they can but trying to optimize for the AI, which will have worse outcomes for everyone, including the audience, most of whom don’t care how the sausage is made to begin with.

It would be very easy, for instance, to upload the Blake Snyder beat sheet and go by how closely it fits that model. Regardless of how you personally feel about Save the Cat I think we can all agree that would be very, very bad.