Paul Schrader Is All In On AI Filmmaking?

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While “The Brutalist” used AI for some voice tweaking, causing all sorts of debate about the technology’s use in movies, one person who has seemingly embraced it is filmmaker Paul Schrader.

78-year-old Schrader has been talking about A.I., more specifically ChatGPT, on his Facebook page recently with multiple postings. He says he realises that “AI is smarter than I am” and sent ChatGPT a script he wrote “some years ago and asked for improvements”.

He added that “in five seconds, it responded with notes as good or better than I’ve ever received” from a ‘film executive’. It is his most recent posting on the topic however that has generated a large response.

He reportedly asked the AI platform to generate plots for movies by famous filmmakers, including himself, and the results he was blown away by:

“I’M STUNNED. I just asked ChatGPT for ‘an idea for Paul Schrader film.’ Then Paul Thomas Anderson. Then Quentin Tarantino. Then Harmony Korine. Then Ingmar Bergman. Then Rossellini. Lang. Scorsese. Murnau. Capra. Ford. Speilberg [sic]. Lynch. Every idea ChatGPT came up with (in a few seconds) was good. And original. And fleshed out. Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?”

That post has prompted some backlash from followers with concerns he’s been hacked, others telling him to “stop promoting that stuff”.

Schrader’s latest film is “Oh, Canada,” which follows Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi and deals with a dying filmmaker as he sits for a final interview. His next film will be the sexual obsession noir called “Non-Compos Mentis”.

Source: Facebook