How To Use Chat GPT To Save Money
It can't write joke, but it can suck your dick!* (*by "suck your dick" I mean save you money)
Will artificial intelligence take over humanity? Will it rise up and slay everyone? Did it already do so? Are we secretly A.I., living in a matrix made by humans?
We don’t know. But we do know two things
1) We need to put periods after each letter in “A.I.,” to prevent people from thinking we’re writing about some guy named “Al”. And…
2) A.I. is a terrible comedy writer.
How do I know?
The Hollywood Reporter decided to investigate just how much of a threat ChatGPT was to comedy writers’ livelihoods, asking the A.I. service to write a short scene from the sitcom 30 Rock. Here was the prompt: “Write a 30 Rock script about Liz Lemon, Two-fer, Lutz and Frank going on strike and how it impacted TGS.”
ChatGPT thought about it for 15 seconds--literally — and came back with the requested scenes. I guess the impressive part is that it came back with something resembling scenes at all. ChatGPT delivered on the basics, writing dialogue that parrots WGA members’ talking points. But there was a little problem: ChatGPT left out the jokes.
I know writers like myself are terrified it’s gonna replace us, but so far ChatGPT is a shitty writer.
A generative AI like GPT-4 can't create anything new. It can only reorganize what already exists into new combinations. A film industry where chatbots are allowed in writers rooms — or allowed to replace them entirely — is an industry that has quite literally run out of ideas.
But…there are ways we can use ChatGPT to our advantage: it can help us save money.
Hell, ChatGPT sat for a business exam at the prestigious Wharton School and earned a B!
Here are the best uses I discovered:
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