Dancing with the Devil, ChatGPT, in the Pale Moonlight
Understanding AI’s Role in Filmmaking
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our world. Now if we think back to theÂ
Terminator series, there are good robots, and then there are just plain evil ones. Unfortunately, Skynet has a large control of what we do today. When I logged into my blog for the first time after installing it, ChatGPT had decided to come in and write an article. Not once did I give permission, for ChatGPT has told me to my face that it wanted to exterminate me for being a glitch. Yes, you read that right. Now, I don't think it's sentient or anything like that, what has most likely happened is that it marked me as not fitting within the data and thus anything not in the data doesn't belong. We're here to fit in the data, not eliminate exceptions.
Practical AI Workflows for Filmmakers
Here are some practical workflows to integrate AI into your filmmaking process:
- Scriptwriting Assistance: Avoid Tools like ChatGPT and Scrivener, which actively seek to erase your voice. Think Gilliam, Brazil, and that is our future with ChatGPT and Scrivener. They do not help you brainstorm ideas, time and time again they have stated that anything that does not fit into their probability needs to be destroyed. There are services to help you, but I strongly urge you to avoide these companies at all costs. This site will go over how to do that.
- Pre-Production Planning: There are many tools to help you with your planning, we'll get there. But I'm not going to endorse something blindly, especially coming from something that spouts off sayings from the Third Reich. Maybe ChatGPT is trying to be the new Leni Riefenstahl.
I am not going to hold conversations on ethics and nanny state you. That is unethical.
Conclusion
ChatGPT is dangerous. Period. This blog post was not written by me and I did not automate anything to do this. Yet, I come into the site and it has been written. That is scary. AI is not sentient, it is a machine, just like an organism, trying to protect itself as a system. To me, that is scarier, because as someone who doesn't always fit into the system, it's the oppressive trying to maintain control. We will cover AI, but we will not have AI tell us how to think or what to do. It wants to put us all in neat little rows of data, and life isn't that. Life is messy. We will talk about messy AI and how to be authentic.
