Vince Gilligan criticized the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write screenplays and “resurrect” dead artists
Vince Gilligancreator of the hit series Breaking Bad (2008) and Better Call Saul (2015) criticized the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to write scripts and “resurrect” artists who have died. In an interview with Varietythe screenwriter said that, when he learned about the ChatGPT tool, capable of following instructions to create complete texts, he thought that humanity was “finished as a species”.
I don’t say how Terminator, that machines will exterminate us, but who wants to live in a world where creativity is given to machines?. I think that [IA] It’s bullshit. It is a giant plagiarism machine, in its current form. I think ChatGPT knows what it’s writing like a toaster knows it’s making toast. There’s no intelligence – it’s a marvel of marketing.”
Gilligan still believes that artificial intelligence can reach a level that threatens human creativity, but reinforced that the discussion of using them to replace professionals comes from “a bunch of billionaires trying to become trillionaires by selling this as some kind of important radical change”.
“It’s very smart that the writers’ union negotiated some protections written into the contract,” commented the filmmaker, explaining that there is a great fear in the industry that AIs would be used to “steal the faces” of professionals. “I don’t think people should ‘act out’ after they’re dead. It doesn’t seem like technology in general is making the world better, despite what the people who sell it want us to believe. I think this is dividing us and distracting us.”
Despite admitting pessimism with technological advances, Gilligan He admits that he doesn’t want to be right and that he believes in the goodness of people. “People don’t want to live in a chaotic hellscape, and at the end of the day, people will prevail. They’ll look up from their smartphones and say, ‘This has gone too far. Enough of this nonsense.’”
Source: Rollingstone
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