Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT


Writers hold signs on the picket line on the fourth day of the strike by the Writers Guild of America as they march past Netflix in Hollywood, California, on May 5, 2023. The Hollywood writers’ strike broke out last week over pay, but the refusal of studios like Netflix and Disney to rule out AI replacing human scribes in the future has only fuelled anger and fear on the picket lines. — AFP

NEW YORK: When Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, was recently extolling the capabilities of artificial intelligence, he turned to Game Of Thrones.

Imagine, he said, if you could use AI to rewrite the ending of that not-so-popular finale. Maybe even put yourself into the show.

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