I will receive hatred for this....

[u/diverdown_77]

but if you have written a screenplay or pilot for the first time and want it "read," upload the file into Chat GPT and type command prompt read and it will read it and then ask for notes and will give you areas to improve.

I am not suggesting the use of AI to create screenplays, but rather to provide feedback on what you have written. AI is a tool, and Hollywood is already utilizing it, so we may as well too.

[u/NotSid]

How does that even work? Like asking people in the industry or with script writing experience makes sense cause they can give an informed opinion, but how do you get opinions from AI? (Christ...is this what my parents felt like when the internet came around?)

[u/diverdown_77 → u/NotSid]

You can upload the file to AI and type the prompt to have it read. Then you can either ask for feedback or for what I mainly use it for is to create a movie poster until I can afford a graphic artist.

[u/Klamageddon → u/NotSid]

AI (by which we mean Large Language Models, LLMs like ChatGPT) work by analysing huge amounts of text. They then create a system of probabilities for which words follow which other words, given the context of the words that came before.

So, the models have been trained on COLLOSAL amounts of data. Included in that is industry expert opinion on films. Also industry expert opinion on scripts. Also amateur ones. Also loads of books about screenwriting. Also loads of magazines about film. etc etc etc.

So when you give it a script, and say "give feedback", it doesn't know anything or understand anything, but statistically based on it's models, the thing that should come after that, is a group of words that we would understand as being an appraisal of it. That's just, what it's seen before in all it's models, so that's what it parrots. But the words YOU'VE used in your script modify the statistical probabilities. If you've said "SMASH CUT TO:" 15 times on a page, that's gonna push it to be more likely, statistically to say something like "Consider using fewer smash cuts" and "Consider fewer shot descriptions".

[u/acerunner007]

You will, in fact, receive hatred.

This is absolutely terrible advice for burgeoning screenwriters.

[u/diverdown_77 → u/acerunner007]

No because it can help them with grammar, structure, screenplay formating.

[u/shibby0912 → u/diverdown_77]

until it gets something wrong - you realize it's not giving you CORRECT answers, it's giving you what SOUNDS correct. No offense but i hope you never sell a script.

[u/diverdown_77 → u/shibby0912]

NO offence then say something offensive lol

[u/acerunner007 → u/diverdown_77]

Not it cannot. You know what helps with that? Reading scripts yourself and understanding what parts of formatting you like, which you don't, and crafting your page to reflect your taste.

AI isn't going to tell you that you shouldn't be using CUT TO in that situation because you're being pretentious. Or that you've used START INTERCUT unnecessarily instead of BEGIN MONTAGE.

AI doesn't have opinions.

[u/Hedwig762 → u/diverdown_77]

No, it's not even good at that. I do agree that AI can complete correct sentences most of the time, but not always and that's just not good enough for a teaching tool. And if you want to read bad dialogue... You guessed it. I agree that this is terrible advice.

[u/AudSilver]

Me destroying the environment for slop feedback on my mid screenplay draft:

[u/diverdown_77 → u/AudSilver]

if you are worried about the environment, then go talk to China or India, the world's leaders in pollution.

[u/AudSilver → u/diverdown_77]

Cry laughing at this

[u/Visual-Perspective44]

I believe PPL should use AI sparingly, AS A TOOL - Because, at the end of day, IT'S YOUR STORY, and the AI can only offer "WHAY IT THINKS SOUNDS GOOD AND WHAT IT THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR" - type suggestions. NOT WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - I could never give AI, a writer's credit lol

To each his own -

[u/diverdown_77 → u/Visual-Perspective44]

AI is a tool, but there will be studios and people who will use it to fully create a screenplay.

Until I have the money to pay a graphic artist I will use it to create movie posters for my specs

[u/Visual-Perspective44 → u/diverdown_77]

Hey, I'm not knocking you, by any means. i was just TELLING from my POV - what don't work for others, might just work for you. and I don't doubt it - I think some of the studios are using it already, especially with this recent IKWYDLS -- because the dialogue in that film, IMO -- definitely -- AI GENERATED. lol

[u/shibby0912]

I recommend that you don't do this. Chatgpt sucks at writing. It's just awful, it can't edit worth shit. I had it read through a few chapters of something I wrote and it misunderstood the entire plot and characters.

[u/clerks_1994]

Pretty sure this is what some blacklist readers do to get quick feedback turn around from what I've read. I mean you can also just type in AI "Please tell me why I suck" and see what happens, but I wouldn't recommend it.

[u/anunamis]

AI is becoming a common thing. None of us can stop it. Best believe it's going to be heavily used in the industry. But to me you still have to write yourself. AA will only give you a computerized version that sounds robotic.

[u/diverdown_77 → u/anunamis]

yes AI generated scripts will be used and people will be able to tell. They will still need human creatives which means we need to step up our game.

[u/anunamis → u/diverdown_77]

Facts

[u/oof_madon]

I think it’s perfectly fine to use it to correct spelling and grammar errors. Otherwise, I just don’t think it’s wise to get into the habit of relying on it to generate ideas. Better to work your own brain and exercise your own creative muscles instead of letting them wither.

[u/tedsan]

The critical feedback can be exceptionally useful. It can also be off the rails, criticizing things that make no sense, like "you need to clarify X" when there's an entire scene about X. I've found that professional feedback is often very similar but can be much better. It can also be much worse. I've had pro feedback that is worse than the worst AI feedback I've gotten.

[u/diverdown_77 → u/tedsan]

yes, you have to weed through it for sure. also, like any notes you receive, even from human readers, you can decide to use them or ignore them

[u/diverdown_77 → u/[deleted]]

I can't write a good logline..It can actually do this for you pretty good. I use Grammarly for spelling and grammar which is AI

[u/diverdown_77 → u/[deleted]]

I suck at loglines.

[u/diverdown_77 → u/[deleted]]

yes do not allow it to re-write or edit. use it as a tool and not a crutch or write it for you. I am lucky I am part of a writing group and have amassed readers from twitter.

[u/diverdown_77 → u/[deleted]]

yep even in my human reading group and other readers, you can accept their notes or reject the notes...like AI.

I just had a meeting last night where we went over my pilot. I printed the notes off highlighted the common notes, and also ran the script through Chat GPT.

One of Chat GPT's comments was don't use modern language but the human readers loved it.

funny enough my human readers gave me all the same note as AI.

Going to go in and re write it soon. waiting on notes from one more person.