David Simon, the ex-police reporter who created HBO’s The Wire, was on NPR during the Hollywood writers’ strike a few years ago. The interviewer, Ari Shapiro, asked him whether he might have liked some help from an AI model when he was drafting scenes back in the early 2000s. “If you’re trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you’re stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.”
Simon responded, “I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.”
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