The writer’s strike that is presently occurring in Hollywood represents a major hallmark in the ongoing struggle of human beings to prevent machines from taking over their jobs and, thus, their means of economic survival. The particular tool that threatens the writer’s jobs in this case is chatbot GPT, a form of artificial intelligence that is capable of generating, among other things, dialog for scripts based on any desired general style or else on the style of a particular writer. If allowed to be used freely, it could mean the end of the scriptwriter’s profession. So, it’s the Writers Guild of America, vs. the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the latter of which includes the major studios, networks, and streaming services. And the strike has the potential to go on for a very long time.
Perhaps I’m naïve, but the real question is why the producers are so eager to, in effect, crush the writers? Why are they trying to structure things in such a way that the writers can’t make a decent living? But then again, I’m assuming that this is simply a matter of cutting costs such that the producers, who already make a ton of money, can augment their profits. However, perhaps this is a problem that includes elements that have nothing to do with money.
Let us first explore what it would mean to have only scripts that are written by artificial intelligence. No matter how much artificial intelligence is made to approximate the complexity of human intelligence, it still is going to be operating on the basis of machine stimuli and not organic stimuli. Machine stimuli are defined discrete stimuli. Visualized that would be like 1,2,3,4,5,…..etc., like all the natural numbers. You can make these stimuli smaller and smaller so that it appears that they are merging together like the flowing blendable continual organic stimuli found in human thinking, but, in reality, they are not merging together. They are still capable of being visualized as separate denumerable stimuli. Each machine stimulus maintains its own distinct boundaries.
On the other hand, flowing blendable continual organic stimuli are not sharply defined stimuli and do tend to merge together. Visualized, they could best be described as points on a line, which can be made to demonstrate an infinity not only of the denumerable natural numbers but also of all the other different non-denumerable numbers as well. In reality, there are more points on a line going from 0 to 1 than the infinity of denumerable numbers starting from 1 and going on to infinity. In effect, what I am saying is that non-denumerable infinity is way larger than denumerable infinity.
Now, you may be asking yourself what does all this complex math theory have to do with writing scripts and with the writer’s strike. If, in writing scripts, artificial intelligence can’t get beyond denumerable stimuli, then, no matter how successful it is at being able to approximate human emotions and the portrayal of human narratives, the emotions and the narrative will appear, even at a microscopic level, to be somehow choppy and somehow lacking an organic human flow to it, lacking a cohesion. And, therefore, the emotions will appear subtly shallow as will the flow of the narrative.
Now what is dangerous about this is that movie and television products can frequently provide sources of mirroring and modeling for viewers. So that viewers will end up seeing themselves as mere machine copies of people. And, furthermore, they will see the movie and television stories and the people in the movie and television stories as situations which they will want to emulate. So, they will be seduced into being machine copies of human beings rather than real human beings.
Meanwhile, the reason apart from greater profits that the members of the alliance are predisposed these days to use chatbot GPT is that all their immersion in screen reality has predisposed them to feel increasingly incapable of properly absorbing all the organic stimuli that they nevertheless need to properly survive. So, as they become increasingly numb from screen reality, the members use artificial intelligence as a vehicle to make the process involved in the creation of movie content into a form of machine stimulus, because it eliminates the engagement, the interaction with living human writers, which is becoming an increasingly uncomfortable organic experience for them. It means that not only has the content of movies and television been turned into a form of machine stimulus entertainment, but now the creators and the process of creation of machine stimulus entertainment has been entirely mechanized. And this makes the whole process one that is increasingly comfortable for the production company members to deal with.
The final question to be dealt with here is will the viewers accept the shallow soulless material that will become increasingly common if the production companies have their way. The answer is that it depends on how robotized the viewers become from all the abrasive machine-based stimuli that is increasingly filling up their fields of experience. I certainly hope not.
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