

It sounds like a gigantic bummer that’s far too eager to patronise its audience. The film ends with her performing “a powerful song that embodies her journey and message of resilience and self-love”. She struggles to get accepted into a prestigious music school thanks to “the challenges she faces as a woman of colour in a male-dominated industry”, but eventually learns that “her success is not defined by societal expectations or past traumas, but by her own sense of self-worth and inner strength”. The young woman has experienced domestic violence and sexual abuse by a family member, but she still has a passion for singing that can’t be dented. Pressed for more detail, ChatGPT continued to deliver the goods.
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The movie it came up with was a drama called Unbroken Soul, about “A young woman’s journey of self-discovery and resilience as she faces the traumas of her past and battles against societal and personal expectations to pursue her dreams.” Which, I mean, just give me an Oscar now. My next prompt was simple: “Write me an Oscar-winning movie.” And this time, ChatGPT didn’t let me down.

It’s getting harder and harder to make money from the movie business anyway, but scoring some sweet silverware isn’t an impossible feat. ‘Write me an Oscar-winning movie.’ Photograph: Javier Torres/AFP/Getty Images I’ll wrap it up for you.” With lines as dull as this, my dreams of becoming a billionaire faded away to nothing. It gave me a short scene in which Hemsworth visits Larson and tells her that he thinks he’s sprained his arm. Larson, it said, would play a doctor called Rachel Patel, so I asked it for some sample dialogue.

Buoyed by the possibility of its suggestions, I asked for casting suggestions, and it offered Chris Hemsworth, Brie Larson and John Boyega. This is instantly more interesting, and points to a future where programs like ChatGPT don’t actually write movies, but generate plot ideas that could help human screenwriters out of trouble. This revelation sets off a race against time as the crew must not only find a way to survive the aliens’ attacks but also stop them from destroying Earth and prevent the same disaster from happening to another planet.” As the crew tries to negotiate with the aliens and find a way to peacefully coexist, they uncover a deeper conspiracy that reveals that the aliens had a hand in causing the natural disasters that have been devastating Earth. The crew discovers that the aliens are far more advanced than they expected and have the power to destroy Earth. The aliens have been monitoring the Last Hope’s journey and are hostile towards the human crew. “The distant planet, which was believed to be a potential new home for humanity, is already inhabited by an intelligent alien race. The outline it provided stated: “As they near their destination, the team discovers a dark secret that threatens not only their mission but the fate of humanity itself.” But that’s too vague, so I asked a follow-up question, wanting it to explain this dark secret. And this is where ChatGPT actually comes in useful. But better, hopefully, since that film only made $600m globally and I want to make billions. They build a spacecraft, the Last Hope, that will travel through a wormhole to a distant planet that has been identified as potentially habitable.” A team of scientists and engineers come together to develop a last-ditch effort to save the planet. The world’s governments have been unable to find a solution to the crisis, and the survival of humanity is now in jeopardy.
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The first paragraph of the outline reads: “In the near future, Earth is facing a catastrophic event caused by a series of natural disasters that have devastated the planet. In return, ChatGPT instantly came up with a science fiction action blockbuster called The Last Hope. I don’t just want to become obscenely rich, I also want to preserve the traditional moviegoing experience. This might sound like an act of avarice, but note the use of the word “theatrically”. The first prompt I tried was “write me the outline for a movie that will make billions of dollars theatrically”. ‘Write me the outline for a movie that will make billions of dollars theatrically.’ Photograph: freestyle_images/Alamy
