This weekend was to take place the premiere of a film called The Last Screenwriter (the last screenwriter, in French) at the Prince Charles cinema in London. However, given the number of complaints and an outcry over social networkssocial networks, the cinema preferred to cancel the screening. Why ? Quite simply because it is the first film whose screenplay was entirely written by a artificial intelligenceartificial intelligence.
The film tells the story of a screenwriter who uses an AI to write a screenplay and was written by ChatGPTChatGPT. However, it was humans who had to write the queriesqueries At chatbotchatbot, edit them, then the film was shot with real human actors. For director Peter Luisi, it was about opening a conversation about the use of AI and offering a fresh perspective. Usually, films pitting humanity against machines are written by humans. With this film he wants to show the machine’s point of view.
Trailer for the film The Last Screenwriter. © Spotlight Media Productions
A film available for free online
The cinema received 200 complaints and numerous outraged tweets before deciding to cancel the screening. However, others expressed concern that the establishment was pandering to the pack effect on social media.
Not wanting to be accused of making moneymoneymoney thanks to AI, Peter Luisi published The Last Screenwriter online for free. In addition, the site offers to download the scenario, as well as documentation showing the entire process of writing the scenario using ChatGPT.
