- Dec 28, 2009
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My brain was not prepared for 1:16.
I followed the link in the description and it seems like a training course. It's a good example of when it's used as a tool and not expected to be a replacement. I doubt that if this were simply entered like "create a funny Was Anderson trailer but LOTR" it would have been anywhere near cohesive alone—it still requires a human to have a clear vision for the final result.
I don't think anyone's going that far.
It's very likely that if it's good or well-made, there's a good change humans were closely involved in massaging the final result into something great. In that case, like the trailer linked above, people would likely have fewer issues with it because it's using a tool as it's meant to be used.
I think the important part to focus on is that art is the physical representation of mental expression. Human minds connecting to other human minds. If it's reduced to some underpaid/unpaid intern entering prompts based on marketing guidelines, what's the point?
A bigger problem next to copyright issues I've wondered about is how would actors follow up with details about a script? A director might be able to figure out what things to focus on in a scene but who are the actors going to ask for clarification on what was written by ScriptGPT (naming for the sake of convo)? In the ScriptGPT scenario would we ever get a similar situation like in HP where Snape's true motivations were known only by the actor throughout the films, and that it made a difference in how the character was portrayed?
In the scenario the studios seem to want to create is there would be an editor of the script, not really a writer (they'd have to get paid as such and we can't have that), and it would difficult to make sense of something wholly not your creation. There's already examples of how negatively impacted movies can be when people switch writers already. Who's going to answer questions around script writing, directing, and all the other stuff that isn't actually contained in a script but usually found directly from the writers who created it?
