A.I. is not Hollywood’s silver bullet; it is a nail in it’s coffin.
ChatGPT won’t save Hollywood from the WGA strike.
By C.A. Ramirez
The WGA strike is going to be a bloodbath.
The he executive board of most corporations is more out of touch with its workforce than Trump and Biden are with reality. The ascension of Open A.I.’s Chat GPT may be rendering busy education work obsolete, but it is far from replacing the human touch that is required to produce a pitch-perfect script.
The WGA strike is going to be a bloodbath.
The writers who were already working are going to feel the pinch the most, but they are going to be in a prime spot when it finally ends. The Hollywood machine has been anticipating this strike and as a result, scripts have been hoarded. Boardroom executives feel like they will be able to weather this WGA strike with their ample supply of purchased scripts, but they are going to be up a creek in a few months. The creativity required for the writer’s room of any show is what fuels the longevity of that production and without it, Hollywood is going to churn out a deluge of garbage that will make Disney Star Wars look intelligent.
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When your writers fail, the show fails. Look no further than the last three seasons of Game of Thrones, a fantasy series that was rivaled only by Breaking Bad in its character depth, arcs, and story. Once the writers stopped caring, the entire production fell apart at the seams. Chat GPT is only going to make things worse. The boardrooms will embrace artificial intelligence with such fervor that its first few successes will convince them it is a perpetual panacea that can be called upon at any time. Chat GPT will bring these leeches too close to the sun and their wings, hewn together by A.I., will fall apart.
Artificial intelligence will change industries for better or worse, but they will not replace the human touch when it comes to art and media. A.I. art exists, but at what value? Art collectors are not going to invest money into any piece that was generated by a prompt. Fewer still will display it proudly in their galleries while onlookers struggle to find any value in something no one created. The rise of A.I. will not eliminate the need for human generated art; it is going to create a renaissance where it is valued more than ever.
The dawn of new age is upon us. The world of human-generated art is going to quickly overtake the globe, and it is going to be the aged paradigms of profit-driven executive boards that will collapse because of it. Writers do not deserve to hang by their finger nails on the bottom rungs of the film industry ladder. Intellectual property must translate to residual earnings that are on par with the profits they generate. Executives with six-figure salaries are always thanked during award ceremonies but are never considered by any writer when they are struggling to craft meaningful plot, compelling conflict, and dynamic characters.
The pandemic revealed that the entirety of the economy is propped up by hard workers and not executives. Boardroom members are rarely needed in the day-to-day operations, and the writers’ rooms and showrunners of Hollywood are no different. Restaurants fell apart when owners tried to wait their own tables instead of paying their staff appropriate wages. The film industry is about to build new roads that lead to better opportunities, and they will be paved with superfluous suits who couldn’t explain the difference between plot and story if you held a prop gun from the set of Alec Baldwin’s Rust to their head.