My Interview About AI on KCRW

Scott Myers
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6 min readJun 2, 2023

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A conversation with the host of the program Press Play.

“You could look back on this historically, and say this was hopefully a turning point where humans basically stood up and said, ‘We need to put some parameters here, some fencing on this, because it could eradicate what we’ve come to know as a writing career in Hollywood,’” says Scott Myers. Photo by Shutterstock.

In March, I posted an article: Aaron Sorkin Argues AI Couldn’t Write ‘The West Wing’. I put ChatGPT to the test by giving it this prompt:

Please write a monologue Aaron Sorkin style for the character President of the United States Josiah Bartlet as he confronts a moral crisis: Reveal incriminating evidence against a rival…

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