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We Challenged An AI Screenwriter to See Who Could Write A Better First Ten Pages

Last week, we received a pretty fun tweet aimed at No Film School about how recent advances in AI were soon going to take the jobs of both execs and writers. As No Film School's resident screenwriter, I called bullshit. I've played with lots of AI programs and found them all to be banal and useless. To me, writing is something you do with your soul. But I'm also aware other people maybe feel different about this kind of stuff. Enter Matt Allen, an AI enthusiast and WGA writer who says he and his writing partner, Krista Suh use AI to crank out pages in short times. We decided that we should each put our points of view to the test in a challenge. Let's dive in.Who's the Better Writer: Human ot AI? After the initial chat, Matt assured me that AI could write a better then pages than I could in just a couple hours. I was highly skeptical. So we set out that Matt and Krista would use AI to create ten pages that they would play with and edit in just two hours. And I would have a week to do my ten pages. To make this totally fair, we had Google Gemini create a random logline. The logline was: "A burnt-out bodyguard and a naive, fame-obsessed pop star must team up to take down a ruthless crime syndicate after accidentally witnessing a murder, leading to a series of chaotic mishaps and unlikely friendships."Once we got that, Matt...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 28 October

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