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> It empowers all the non-experts in these many domains to touch things they never could have before.

Nothing stops anyone from writing a mediocre song. Hell, it's one of the easiest things in creation to do. Hum a melody, make some words fit. Write it down, make up your own notation for the melody if you want; you don't even have to perform it. Congratulations! You're in the same field as Colin Meloy.

ChatGPT isn't even doing this much. It's read all the tabs and lyrics of every song within its reach until 2021, and then spits out an average response based on average similar requests. It's a songwriter in the same way a 7-year-old telling you a story about an alligator who ate a city is an author.

So basically the pitch deck for Godzilla? Even including “and then a HUGE MOTH appears and Godzilla shoots a huuuge lazer out of his mouth. And then the moth whose name is uhh Mothra screeches in pain and falls into a skyscraper.”

I think you’re doing seven year olds and GPT a disservice. Lots of iconic media is made by adults who have managed to hold on to their seven year old storytelling brain.

I'm sure the ability to empathise with seven year olds has helped a fair few adults have successful careers in filmmaking, but the top line pitchdeck for Godzilla resembles the writing and production of a successful blockbuster film (even a really cheesy one) in roughly the same way as "I want Facebook for cats" resembles a computer program

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

The pitch deck for Godzilla created by GPT wouldn't include anything like Godzilla, because it wouldn't have had anywhere to copy it from. There aren't many stories substantially like Godzilla before Godzilla. GPT could pitch the 63rd Godzilla clone, which would turn into a romcom halfway through after the machine forgot what it was talking about.

Uh, what? Stories about dragons go back to antiquity.

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