I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Call it writer’s block or procrastination, but it now seems that the AI chatbots designed to ape human wordsmiths are picking up this very writerly flaw.

That was the experience of filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain, who tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project — they key word being “tried,” because the OpenAI chatbot repeatedly made up excuses for why it couldn’t deliver on time. It even tried to change up the deadlines.

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