W4 – Automatic for the People
This week I clicked on a Casey Neistat YouTube video. Neistat is know for his adventurous vlogs and amazing cinematography. In this video:
Niestat prompts ChatGPT to write and direct a script for his vlog which to no surprise, he describes as ‘just so basic, there’s no depth to it’. He does also talk about how he could have prompted it with more detail to enhance the ‘soul’ and emotion of the vlog, but overall he doesn’t feel the ChatGPT or ai will ever be as strong as the human creative mind… which I like to agree with.
This weeks sketch was quite fun to experiment with because we are now using different ai tools. However I think we had too much fun. our voice recording ended up being filled with laughter and long pauses because we did not want to read directly from the script that ChatGPT had prompted. We wanted to improvise because our scripted was so basic and calculated, we wanted to try bring some emotion to the scene. Next time we do a task like this, it will be better to re-write our script and then perform it, rather than just improvising.
It was really interesting to hear Simon Wilson expresses his frustrations of experimenting with certain ai programs. It is difficult to experiment because the ai doesn’t repeat itself well enough to pick up on what you have prompted well or not so well. When we have prompted changes to our script in class, it becomes quite overwhelming and hard to follow what we are doing right or not because there is 1. a large sum of writing to compare and 2. ChatGPT will keep prompting the past text, rather than the original script we had generated.