Screenplay competitions are one of the most popular ways for fledgling writers to break into Hollywood but one contest found itself on the wrong side of the AI argument. Scriptapalooza, a screenpla…

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    1 year ago

    Strange how all the details about what caused them to backtrack are totally missing. I think it goes without saying that they got mercilessly roasted on social media for this and maybe got some satirical submissions??

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      AI is not ready for creating such a big thing. It will, it isn’t now. This was probably just a publicity stunt

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        Nah. I don’t think it’s a matter of AI isn’t up to snuff. I think it’s because the WGA strike is about this exact scenario in which human writers don’t want to be displaced by AI and don’t want to be editors for AI-generated content.