🎬 The Screenwriter of "Taxi Driver" Thinks AI Is Smarter Than Him
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Paul Schrader, best known for his work with filmmaker Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), shared that after interacting with ChatGPT, he realized AI is not only smarter but also more creative than he is.
At first, the 78-year-old Schrader uploaded a script he had written five years ago. He said AI's suggestions were better than anything he could come up with and more useful than any advice he had ever received from film producers.
Then, Schrader asked ChatGPT to generate a movie idea in his style and later requested scripts written in the style of Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Ingmar Bergman, and other renowned directors.
"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?" said Schrader.
He described the experience as existential—similar to what Garry Kasparov must have felt in 1997 when he realized the Deep Blue supercomputer would defeat him in chess.
In the comments, some users suggested Schrader try Claude and praised Grok, while others criticized AI for hallucinations and poor handling of personal data.
Some argue that Schrader's experience highlights not a threat to creatives but rather the uselessness of producers (though not everyone agrees).
"ChatGPT being an AI based on a wide sum of general information, its goal is to make things as average, bland and digestible as possible (just as a studio exec)," said one user.
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