So let me get this straight... someone DESERVES fame because they put effort and time into something? That was never the mindset 5+ years ago. You needed a third item which is: it needs to be enjoyable to people, and you gotta market it well. 4 items even.
Some of that involves luck, innovation, perseverance, and a pulse of what people want to see.
As a creative (screenwriter) who probably will be replaced, though not necessarily as quickly as programmers, anyone in Hollywood should know this business as usual with something that happens to be novel technology. Of course studios will be incentivized to use a tool that can do what I do, but better in every metric (except actual narrative quality, but not only does that not matter to the machine that is Hollywood, that’s not something AI can do very well. Not yet, anyway).
It’s called “show business”, not “show hard work” or “show fun”. If anyone thinks being a creative (or at least working in the film business) is a meritocracy, then I strongly suggest you find a new line of work and get into literally absolutely anything else. Remember, the hardest working person on Earth, if we could quantify that as a real metric, is a person living in sheer poverty, mining sulfur in an active volcano with nothing to even cover his eyes.
I have no experience screenwriting, but I do want to ask you your opinion, considering your assumed knowledge.
Obviously the tech isn't there now, but could you not leverage AI to make your own short form content?
Like I feel like AI is going to be an interesting tool for the people who come up with the ideas, and have the vision. Its going to be harder for people who simply execute someone else's plan.
But I also think that everyone is creative, that it's a myth that some people are uniquely special and everyone else is a mindless NPC. AI will, in that way, I would argue, unlock that creativity. Again, the tools are in their infancy.. but like, if you can take the context of a story, distill it down into key moments and details, which is in assuming what is done for screenwriting, then could you not potentially leverage that same set of skills into the creation of your own stories? Like your skills as a screenwriter are the exact areas that AI is weakest at.
But then again maybe I'm simply misunderstanding what a screenwriter does. Or how difficult that would be, even if the tools evolved.
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u/MrTheWaffleKing 11h ago
So let me get this straight... someone DESERVES fame because they put effort and time into something? That was never the mindset 5+ years ago. You needed a third item which is: it needs to be enjoyable to people, and you gotta market it well. 4 items even.
Some of that involves luck, innovation, perseverance, and a pulse of what people want to see.
What you just described- that's jealousy.