ChatGPT has soap writers fearing for jobs until AI pens Corrie ‘rubbish’ episode
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Soap writers’ jobs are safe as we can reveal AI bots are rubbish at writing telly scripts.
The Daily Star put one of the world’s most popular artificially intelligent “creative” tools ChatGPT through its paces to see what it would churn out when fed data including past plots, character summaries and ideas for dramatic scenes for episodes of Coronation Street.
Despite the soap regularly tackling issues including incest, rape, racism, drugs and wife-beating, the bot refused to produce scripts containing many of the topics as it said they were “inappropriate” and went against its “ethics guidelines”.
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It produced hackneyed scripts featuring murder and drug dealing.
It also repeated titles of its scripts, with one it said was about killing called Shadows Of Deception – and a follow-up script was called Shadows Of Betrayal.
And despite being asked to write scripts that would last for a 30-minute show, its efforts would only fill around half that time.
Its clunky Shadows Of Deception effort contained laughable link lines between dialogue such as “As the night progresses, tension begins to mount”.
It features Steve McDonald getting knifed for no reason by a “masked figure” who turns out to be one of his estranged lovers – and cops “suddenly bursting” into the Rovers Return moments after someone ponders why Steve is late.
Steve is miraculously resurrected in the follow-up script that features a woman “unaware of her true heritage” as she’s his half-sister.
The scripts were turned out as soap writers are fearing for their jobs over suggestions AI bots could end up writing for the likes of Coronation Street, EastEnders and Hollyoaks.
Tech experts reckon soap opera shows are so formulaic that apps such as ChatGPT could easily be trained to pump out endless plots and dialogue based on simple templates
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