Premiere of Movie With AI-Generated Script Canceled Amid Outrage

London Has Spoken The premier of a movie featuring an entirely AI-generated script was canceled last week amid public backlash, The Daily Beast reports. Per the Beast, the not-for-profit movie, titled “The Last Screenwriter,” was due to debut this weekend at London’s Prince Charles Cinema. But just a few days prior to the planned event, the showing was suddenly canceled. The cinema’s reason for axing it, according to director Peter Luisi? Complaints. Lots of them. Luisi told the Beast that the theater — which reportedly received over 200 complaints in total — reached out to him on Tuesday, explaining that “overnight they had another 160 people complaining, so they had to cancel the screening.” “I was totally surprised,” Luisi added. “I didn’t expect that.” In short, Londoners have spoken — and it seems that enough of them aren’t interested in a film that credits GPT-4 as its writer. Strong Concern Luisi, for his part, says that people misunderstood the film’s intentions. “I think people don’t know enough about the project,” the director told the Beast. “All they hear is ‘first film written entirely by AI’ and they immediately see the enemy, and their anger goes towards us. But I don’t feel like that way at all. I feel like the film is not at all saying ‘this is how movies should be.'” The director also described the film as an exploration of the “man versus machine” trope, telling the Beast that in “all of these movies, a human imagined how…Premiere of Movie With AI-Generated Script Canceled Amid Outrage

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