David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: Ok, so you’ve spent your career television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems…
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: … Or saying…
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: … Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don’t think AI can challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you’re trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you’re stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.
Could you imagine the derivitive piece of trash The Wire would be if genuine masters of their craft like David Simon, Ed Burns, George Pelacanos et al resorted to ChatGPT every time they got a little stuck?
Senator Clay Davis would probably just say “shit” like a normal person.
Wallace: “Man, these chicken nuggets is right, yo. Man, whoever invented these, yo, he off the hook.”
Deangelo: “You’re absolutely right! The Chicken McNugget® is a core feature of the McDonald’s® menu and has provided a wealth of shareholder value since it’s inception in 1979. They’re not just tasty — they’re a profitable staple of any McDonald’s® franchise!”