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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

FOUND: Can an ai program really write a good movie here s a test - What They Never Told You

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‘Would I watch this film? God, no.’ Photograph: icholakov/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The rise of AI programs like ChatGPT has triggered a tidal wave of ethical handwringing, most prominently from within the industries that it threatens to destroy. After all, just because you can get a robot to instantly write code or write contracts or provide customer support for free, should you?

Well, the answer from the Writers Guild of America is a qualified yes. This week, the Writers Guild of America proposed that ChatGPT would absolutely be allowed to write scripts in the future, provided that the credit (and the money) goes to the human writer who came up with the prompts in the first place.

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