Paul Schrader Had an 'AI Girlfriend' Who 'Terminated Our Conversation'

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3 points·Michelangelo11··3 comments

“Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?”

If it takes a writer months to come up with a good idea to flesh out with a screenplay, they are in the wrong business.

The operative word here is good. Good ideas take time to discover and flesh out. Multiple celebrated writers have only had one good idea in multiyear careers. For example George Lucas had exactly two good ideas Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Arc. Three if you count American Graffiti.

Mr Schrader though is confused, chat gpt ideas are not good they just look good on a list.

He is probably thrown off from all the emojis and m-dashes.

Fair points, though let’s make a distinction here, as I would argue that Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were GREAT ideas, not just good, though there’s some wiggle room in both of those labels for subjectivity. Not every movie is as commercially successful as Star Wars, but it might come away to public and critical reception as “good”, more than break even at the box office, and set the director up for being allowed to direct again.

Nowadays though, it seems like traditional movie studios only want mega blockbusters, which left the door open for Netflix and Amazon to create things with lower financial expectations, but still deliver quality.

So basically, I don’t equate good, with blockbuster, or whatever Schrader equates with good. I can fondly name 20 or 30 movies that made out okay, that weren’t necessarily hard for a good writer to come up with, that all had different subjects.

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