Last night I came across a post in a Facebook group I am involved with that is a meeting place for amateur and professional film makers alike. In this post, the author stated they were investigating the use of ChatGTP to create scripts for their next film, and did anyone have any tips.
I personally find this a little disturbing.
Surely, as I argued in a response to the message, this takes away any personal creativity, instead letting a computer algorithm, albeit a clever and complex one to cobble together a pile of material scraped from the internet ending into a so-called “script”.
I further added “You want to make a movie? A docco? A short film? Even a TV commercial… rely on your OWN talent and instincts, not a computer somewhere. The computer is a tool, and you would be letting it become your master.”
Responses to my reply so far have been about 50-50 mixed with agreements and disagreements.
But what do you think? I am curious to know.
Is it that we are passing the buck in favour of expediency or am I wrong, and this is just another step forward in the art of filmmaking in the same way digital and CGI were?