He's selling a book demonstrating how great and scary AI is for 17 dollars and his friend from OpenAI was really keen to show off the fantastic new AI model his company has lined up.<p>Great thinly veiled ad for OpenAI and this guy's book. A book which appears to be nothing more than a bunch of AI generated poems. He even says that they could have just been posted online but that they're selling through a publisher for "credibility".<p>Another alarmist poised to profit from the alarm. Not saying all of them are mind, just this one seems that way.
I honestly don't care if the stuff I consume for entertainment comes from a an AI, a dude in his 40s or a combination of both. I just want it to be good. I think it' silly to demand some minimum quotas just to "save" jobs. "Jobs" don't need to be saved - there are more open jobs than people to do them. Yes, most of them sucks, but granted satisfactory payment, I bet anyone could do a sucky job for a couple of hours each week. And then he can continue producing "writing has never been necessary, consequential, or important."
But the screenwriter was probably perfectly happy with all the office automation eliminating the jobs of people who did day to day office work. They probably didn't even notice.
Screenwriters have sat comfortably in their little moat producing increasingly generic, hackneyed and woke rubbish for years. Now they're finding out what happens when you rest on your laurels: you get disrupted. If there were ever an industry in need of creative disruption, it is screenwriting.