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<\/div>London Has Spoken<\/h2>
The premier of a movie featuring an entirely AI-generated script was canceled last week amid public backlash, The Daily Beast <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a>.<\/em><\/p> Per the Beast<\/em>, the not-for-profit movie, titled \"The Last Screenwriter,\" was due to debut this weekend at London's Prince Charles Cinema. But just a few days prior to the planned event, the showing was suddenly canceled. The cinema's reason for axing it, according to director Peter Luisi? Complaints. Lots of them.<\/p> Luisi told the Beast<\/em> that the theater — which reportedly received over 200 complaints in total — reached out to him on Tuesday, explaining that \"overnight they had another 160 people complaining, so they had to cancel the screening.\"<\/p> \"I was totally surprised,\" Luisi added. \"I didn't expect that.\"<\/p> In short, Londoners have spoken — and it seems that enough of them aren't interested in a film that credits GPT-4 as its writer.<\/p> Luisi, for his part, says that people misunderstood the film's intentions.<\/p> \"I think people don't know enough about the project,\" the director told the Beast<\/em>. \"All they hear is 'first film written entirely by AI' and they immediately see the enemy, and their anger goes towards us. But I don't feel like that way at all. I feel like the film is not at all saying 'this is how movies should be.'\"<\/p> The director also described the film as an exploration of the \"man versus machine\" trope, telling the Beast<\/em> that in \"all of these movies, a human imagined how this scenario would be.\"<\/p> His is \"the first movie\" in which \"not the human, but the AI imagined how this would be.\"<\/p> Of course, it could be argued that because <\/em>GPT-4 is trained on troves upon troves of human data — including humanity's creative output — whatever screenplay the AI spits it is ultimately still imagined<\/em> by humans. A large language model (LLM)-powered AI, then, is simply remixing that creative labor and regurgitating a version of it.<\/p> But we digress! As AI continues its ever-faster creep<\/a> into the film industry, not to mention Hollywood labor disputes and union battles<\/a>, this certainly won't be the last AI-forward project that we see bubble up. A fair warning to the AI-curious filmmaker, however: as it turns out, a lot of people still want their movies created by human beings.<\/p> \"The feedback we received over the last 24 hrs once we advertised the film,\" the Prince Charles Cinema told The Guardian<\/em><\/a> in a statement, \"has highlighted the strong concern held by many of our audience on the use of AI in place of a writer which speaks to a wider issue within the industry.?\"<\/p> More on AI and movies: <\/strong>Ashton Kutcher Threatens That Soon, Ai Will Spit out Entire Movies<\/em><\/a><\/p> The post Premiere of Movie With AI-Generated Script Canceled Amid Outrage<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> More here: London Has Spoken The premier of a movie featuring an entirely AI-generated script was canceled last week amid public backlash, The Daily Beast reports . Continue reading Strong Concern<\/h2>
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