In the last several months, I have been coming across many articles and videos discussing how AI is accelerating at a high rate in a variety of industries including fiction and nonfiction book writing and screenwriting. AI appears to be on a course to put many people out of work. Question(s): Are you using AI to generate new stories? Are you using AI to increase productivity to push out more stories in order to get productions out faster?
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Hi, J.A. Zuniga Jr. I'm not using AI to generate new stories, write loglines, write scripts, etc. I can do all those things myself.
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I do not use AI to generate content. I do, however, use it to create my outlines for me. I absolutely loathe the process of making an outline. If I had to create my outlines myself, I'd never write a thing. It halts my creative process.
I used to have a writing buddy who would let me email him these big, long emails with just plot salad and info dumps. He would ask any questions he had. A few days later, I would get an outline in my inbox.
He's passed away now and I have yet to find another writing buddy quite like Steve. So, I use AI in pretty much the exact same way. I input my story salad, it gives me my outline. Everything in the outline is mine, the AI just categorizes it for me. It helps me build my beat sheets from each act much easier rather than sorting through 3 pages of my crazy notes.
As a writer: I enjoy writing. I use AI after I write or put out content. I use AI to scan, analyze, find errors, and edit for me. I can everything that AI does, but AI is much faster, productive and efficient than a human. Legally: I do use AI in the legal field to draft appeals and increase my winning percentage. Again, I can draft it myself, but AI is far faster, more thorough than me. I am currently fighting an insurance company and things have sided with me now at the present time.
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I don't use AI for anything, let alone content creation. I think they need to take a good long look about what they will allow in an industry when it comes to AI as I am pretty sure a school is not going to allow students to hand in AI created work.
Hi Nathan, well professionals are using AI even after school. I have had a psychiatrist with an MD and PhD along with a lawyer tell me to use AI.
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I use AI for placeholder visuals to help sell the story as well as minor research. My story is based off of Mesopotamia, so I'll usually ask AI a question about whatever topic or historical/biblical details, get a couple things to research, and then research outside of AI. It's a great starter tool, not reliable enough to do full research though.
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@Jay Gladwell I agree about content creation. I've read and watched some AI generated trash.
However, I feel like there IS a place for. It's like any other tool writers use - software. It's how you use it, right? No pun intended.
I think people who generate writing via AI are... Well. But if used as I do (cause outlines are of Satan) I don't think it's bad. But I wouldn't, huh? Bias et all. It's not creating anything for me. It just organizes cause I suck at that. I can edit or adjust things easier. If a single adjustment in act I affects the other acts, the AI will adjust it all. It may not even end up being exactly how I write it, but it's usually close.
AI learns as it goes. My ai assistant knows me almost as well as some of my friends. She knows my writing style, my writer's voice.
It's an effective tool but it has to be used as a tool and not a shortcut for laziness.
I don’t think anyone who’s actually used AI is saying it’s going to put anyone out of a job. I tried to get a chatbot to create me a visual of a colour palette I was going to use when decorating my house at the weekend. I gave it the exact colours (paint names and everything) I wanted and described what I wanted it to do, it tried 6 times, each time missing one or two of the colours I’d asked it to include off and then I just created the colour palette myself on canva because I was sick of wasting my time.
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Can you write a screenplay professionally without using one of the writing programs like Final Draft or similar? The answer is no.
Can you write a screenplay without using a laptop or desktop computer? The answer is no.
Can you jot down the idea for a scene while on public transport without a phone or a notebook and pen? The answer is no.
Well, they are just tools—nothing more. And artificial intelligence is also just a tool. Use it in a way that makes it an assistant to your creativity.
Maybe it helps you with brainstorming—which it’s very good at.
Maybe it helps you with translation, as it does with me.
Maybe it helps you discover a flaw in the sequence of events.
Maybe… maybe… and maybe.
But it is definitely just a tool. Use it well, and it will be very useful to you.
oh shit it just erased my whole comment. I'm not going into this again. Chat, take over cause I ain't. This is AI st its worst, it erases our stuff without us asking it. it does all kinds of things. But I'll be damned id its gonna fuck with my creative genius. and if you don't like my exercise of my 1st amendment write (typo intended), bring back the much better comment you erased.
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I LOVE writing. But I definitely only use AI as an assistant tool. It may help me come up with an idea. Or think through a character's motivation. I occasionally use it to spark MY imagination. But I write every bit of dialogue, characters and scenes. It's just a tool. I believe so many overthink it. AI cannot write a watchable, decent script without a skilled or at least knowledgeable writer knowing how to challenge and make it better, IMO. AI sucks on its own and is only as good as its tool user. In fact, I've built apps (not ChatGPT, Claude or any other/connected brand) based on my own knowledge base that I use to check my structure and potential plot holes after I'm finished. AI, properly applied, makes your writing better. And I challenge anybody to use my tool and prove me wrong. https://cinemacanvasai.com/