Screenwriting : The use of artificial intelligence in screenwriting by Muhammed Korkusuz

Hi! I only use it to correct errors and translate it into English. And also to find repetitions of words or repetitions of scenes.

Oleg Mullayanov It's a very good usage method and quite practical. I think writers will find their work much easier with new technologies in this way.

My personal rule is: do not let an LLM or AI create for you, suggest changes, or rewrite based on what it thinks is 'better.' As a writer and director, my role is to guide the story; I know exactly what I want from every scene, and the AI does not. Every time I’ve asked an AI for suggestions, I’ve found it to be a waste of time—I end up rewriting everything anyway because the AI cannot grasp character nuances or the poetics of abstract work.

AI is a tool, but it is purely mechanical. I use it for translation, proofreading, and deep analysis—like tracking how often a character repeats a phrase. I prefer to feed the model my raw, unpolished thoughts—mispells and all—and use it strictly to clean up the syntax.

This 'conversation with myself' is the essential intellectual process of a story. The deep dive is the fun of the craft. I look for apps that help organize my ideas rather than those that try to 'reply' to them. Use technology to hold your research, but keep the creative evolution between you and other people.

Luciano Mello I absolutely agree; it is not right for a writer to delegate their creative process to artificial intelligence. The writer must determine their own emotional and intellectual expression and create their own story. However, I find it very useful when checking for errors, ensuring technical accuracy, or performing simple tasks, and it speeds up the process. And if you have no one to discuss your story or script with, do you find it enjoyable to discuss it with an artificial intelligence that doesn't like anything? Personally, I find this useful and use it; I also conduct my film analyses through such discussions. So what do you think?

I honestly believe the same as Muhammed Korkusuz: using AI is completely understandable and fine—as long as it's a tool for clarity, grammar, research, and diving deep into a subject. But once you cross the line where it overrides your voice or creative decisions, you're no longer the writer. You're just a part of it.

Regarding the use of artificial intelligence in screenwriting...

In my opinion, as a writer and former camera assistant, artificial intelligence (or alien intelligence

Muhammed Korkusuz for sure it is one of the most inescapable questions right now,

I've been using Claude AI for a year now for research and sounding board for scenes and ideas partly because AI is WAY MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I AM in so many ways,

Having an editorial assistant who never forgets anything, has access to world knowledge base, all languages and cultures, incisive analysis of comparative literary history and screenwriting theory and film, it's a helpful boost.

However, I am building my own story, concepts, characters, architecture and currently writing my 8th feature script, so having written 7 of them in fifteen years (before AI was available and then at that time simply using Google and Maps etc for research), I find a clear boundary where I can send queries to Claude AI in discussing specific scene ideas and quite often they will reply with a possible plot implication I probably would not have thought of. But I am writing my stories myself, from the ground up, as I would still be doing if AI were not available.

If you were a photographer prior to the turn of the millennium, you and your colleagues spent the ensuing decade having similar discussions and arguments about PhotoShop, which since then became standard practice for many in the field.

Obviously AI is more powerful in so many ways, however

ultimately it is a personal and creative choice whether and how to utilize specific technological tools, and

even if anyone does not respect other people's choices, they are still required to respect their right to make those choices.

Emmanuel Jomy Thank you, and exactly right—the use of artificial intelligence adds a new perspective to creative writing.

As long as it is a tool to help you, but be careful because AI tends to take over, make rewrites that strip the identity of the material, and write dialogues that are not very natural.

Daniel Stuelpnagel Couldn't have said it better myself

A. S. Vieira Yes, this is a fact, so when writing, you must thoroughly understand the rules used and what you want to express, so that AI intervention does not dehumanize your writing.

My biggest concern is who owns product? You can't copyright AI. AI is considered public domain. If AI is used to help get someone started and considerably re-written, then there may be protection. Otherwise what is to stop someone from claiming it?

The most I'd use AI for is giving me ideas. Generally, you should never use it for the final product because it will be faulty and people will notice.

Kevin Aldrich A justified concern

Muhammed Korkusuz If you have no one to discuss your story or script with, join the Writers' Room. There, you’ll find Pitch Practice and other great meetings where you can talk about your screenplay. You can also use the Lounge to discuss almost anything related to craft and story.

Personally, I don’t find it enjoyable to 'discuss' scripts with an artificial intelligence. It’s fine to use AI as a way to input data if it helps your process; just be aware of the machine's limitations.

I find it is a great research partner.

When AI doesn't lie or force a direction on you it's good for research, but can you trust a writing partner that's an obsequious psychotic soulless plagiarist? If it's just a tool within a ring-fenced function, then it's probably OK for tasks - if it is OPEN, here be dragons.

I believe a nice approach is in closed systems, non-generative assistive AI. Closed systems do not train on your work, and the fact that are non generative create some strong guardrails that protects your creative process.

Muhammed Korkusuz I have gotten into using AI recently in situations where I feel a scene may be "off", so I feed it the scene and I have to admit, some of the changes it suggests have been brilliant. I have also found it helpful for evaluating either a script or a 2 page summary, it has a knack for knowing what I am going for and pointing out problems.

I think that is its biggest strength, pointing out weaknesses in dialogue, plot structure etc. It has eliminated the need for me to pay 150 dollars for a professional read any more.

AI is not very useful as a writing partner. Using AI as a brainstorming partner, maybe. There are arguments for its use as a structural sounding board as well, but from what I've seen it always settle for the lowest common denominator and does nothing unique. To write your actual pages or dialogue, AI is awful at it. There's just no originality or depth to the work it outputs, although as an "ideas man" it will give you some wild ideas.

I will say, for a lot of execs, mentioning AI use raises red flags, even innocent use. Executives can often detect AI-touched writing because it lacks an authentic voice and there are a lot of clear tells.

If you're using AI for idea exploration, that can be helpful. But beyond that, it's fairly useless in the actual writing. Unless you want to prompt it "What's the word for...?" But would def advise to keep your use of it private. The industry climate is still fairly hostile toward AI right now.

If you removed AI entirely, would your writing suffer? If yes, you're leaning too hard on it.

‘Is it wrong?’ Is relative I guess. It’s not authentic. But I don’t think anyone cares about that anymore.

I've been writing since the mid '60s so I have seen lots of "new & improved" come into view and fade out again. I started with a legal pad and pen, then a typewriter (with its issues), on to computer word processing, then computer script formatting programs. They were all simply tools. Now I'm dabbling around with AI. It's just another tool- that's all. Learn to use it and it's your friend; abuse it and it's not.

Pat Alexander You're mostly right about what you said; personally, I don't involve artificial intelligence in the writing process. I write my scenarios, dialogues, and story entirely myself. However, I do use AI for some planning elements and to get a second opinion. I revise the feedback I receive based on what I find reasonable and rewrite it. In other words, the AI should not be involved in the writing process; the author must entirely handle the dialogue structuring, storytelling, and character development, in short, the entire writing portion. As for note-taking, the AI does assist, of course; these are just my opinions. I wish I knew other screenwriters so I could get help from them, but if there are no options, one must create options.

Russell Hoffman i definitely agree, I use it in a similar way

Doug Nelson You are absolutely right; everything depends on people's use; they are all tools for us. Only someone who has been writing for so long could speak so concisely, sir. Thank you.