Artificial intelligence was put to the test on some of Canada’s most iconic film and television lines.
The Writers Guild of Canada ran the lines through AI to see what “improvements” it could make, according to a press release from the guild.
Given the simple instructions to “improve this line,” or “word this line differently to have the same meaning but be more entertaining,” ChatGPT was given a host of iconic Canadian lines from film and TV.
📺 Watch @AndrewPhung, WGC member, put AI to the test.🧐 Let’s make sure we keep #WritersNotRobots working on our favourite Canadian film and TV shows.✍️🤖 https://t.co/7ap7YVsYHG
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— Writers Guild of Canada (@WGCtweet) November 25, 2024
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