Screenwriting : AI for scripts by Shirley Collier

Like many others at stage32, I have tried it, but I have found that AI writes poorly. Characters are cliché, dialogue is cliché, everything is cliché. Which is bad.

But at the same time, English is not my native language, so when I decided to translate my latest screenplay into American English, I asked AI for help to make the characters speak differently. No, AI doesn't do that perfectly, but well enough to limit the need for human help.

Some of my tests with AI were partly encouraging. I asked AI to write a scene with a Christian man flirting with a Muslim woman. The flirting was cliché but I had the impression that the citations from both the Bible and the Quran were correct.

You can also try this. Tell AI that you have a problem with a scene. So you ask AI to help you to find a few uploaded plays and screenplays which includes such a scene, so you can learn from those who solved the problem with that scene.

I never use it to actually write anything. For me, that's a line that shouldn't be crossed. However, I think it does have some practical uses. Good place to organize thoughts, do some research, stress test a scene to see if it's logically working. I know people use it for feedback, and while it CAN be helpful, you really have to tweak the types of responses you get from it as AI is designed to be positive and helpful. Often, it will praise you and tell you you just wrote the next Hollywood hit instead of giving objective feedback.

Shirley Collier def a no go for me personally. In all honesty I've never even used one of the software products so I am speaking from zero knowledge but philosophically I have decided it is not for me.

Shirley, I absolutely, flat-out refuse to use AI to write a script for me.

Still...I've been turning to sites such as https://ScriptReader.ai and https://screenplayiq.com to get an idea on how what I've been writing stands alongside scripts that actually became TV shows and movies.

The two sites help me identify character arcs and help me identify themes I never really thought of. They're great when I'm trying to come up with written pitches.

ScreenplayIQ (developed by the folks at WriterDuet) and ScriptReader don't have the final word...at all.

If anything I've written strikes a chord with folks here on Stage 32 or on Script Revolution, then I'm happy.

Research = yes

Brainstorming = yes

Analysis = yes

Writing = godno

Feedback = absolutelyfuckingnot

What CJ Walley ^^^ said.

I wanted to test out what the fuzz was all about with AI in writing, so I gave Open AI the parameters, the characters...and I swear AI is retarded. It cannot understand human emotions, nor can it innovate. It has been fed basically only Reddit poop in its LLM.

It does not understand style, at all

I am sure it will be used quite a bit in the future, though, and the movies and TV shows will fail even more than they do now. You cannot tell a story with an algorithm

Telling a story - not writing, everybody can tip-type . but telling a story is a dance between the story teller and their audience

And the audience now has both an story and visual vocabulary unmatched in history of entertainment. They will smell the bullshit. They will not be able to put it into words, or write long essays about it, but they will smell the bullshit

Which is why Hollywood is already in trouble. Even without AI, their stories have become algorithmic. Never mind art, let's talk about money. You will not get an audience to show up and pay a lot of money for something that tastes like a week old Chipotle in the fridge. You can do that once or twice, and then ... Youtubers will complain, that is how they make their money. But normal folks... just won't show up anymore