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The Last Screenwriter: The ChatGPT film that finds art in the artificial

If someone invited you to watch a controversial and provocative new film by an award-winning filmmaker, you might be tempted. But if they told you it was written by AI, you might suddenly remember you had an urgent appointment somewhere.
When Swiss director Peter Luisi made The Last Screenwriter, a feature-length film penned entirely by ChatGPT, he did so with his eyes open. He expected the screenplay to be clichéd, the characters one-dimensional, and the plot as holey as a colander. But he did it anyway.
So why stake his hard-won reputation on a project of questionable cinematographic value?