From SEO to Scriptwriting

Sorry for some silence. In August I got a job offer and come back to my favorite field – scriptwriting for animation, so it would be naturally to compare ideas lying in the base of SEO and storytelling these days. As I have written before, SEO is all about working with patterns – in fact keywords are nothing more than patterns people use while thinking about something.
There are several words that could express very close meaning but people prefer a certain set, and search engines are trained (especially now, with use of machine learning technologies) to identify and respond to these patterns with most relevant content.

In scriptwriting, I’d say even in storytelling in general, we also do a kind of optimization to our audience needs but we use more complex patterns, where not only words involved – here we’re working with images in the wide meaning of this word, including all channels of perception available for humans.

Yes, search engines go in this direction, too – last AI projects allow users to create images based on their search requests. And machines will always be better in working with patterns, so I’m sure AI would write scripts much better than scriptwriters but… there is one thing about the Internet that gives us creative people not only a hope but a solid foundation. This thing became a trend in modern movie industry. I’m talking about uniqueness, the thing opposite patterns.  

In the world where competition for the audience attention is so high it is not enough to meet the audience patterns but also be unique in this. And it’s obviously not about AI…

Why should writers not be afraid of AI progress?

WGA writers are on strike. There were some serious copyright issues questioning current regulations because of artificial intelligence services. A kind of a panic…

One of my contacts in Twitter, a well-known Producer and Screenplay Writer, posted that AI news made him so sad that he stopped writing another script and got a kind of writing block. Doubts…

While my recent talk with peers working with AI closely, they repeated several time, “we are living in the era of deep fake”. Even marketing professionals are not happy, either.

My last writing job involved lots of communication with ChatGPT, too. Now I can recognize lots of ChatGPT clichés in posts around the Internet. Stop. What?

Yes, my dear readers, lots of writers or just marking-related workers rushed to use ChatGPT for their purposes and almost flooded the online space with low-meaning texts generated by AI.

And after all the mentioned above, I tell you – that’s OK. There is no fear about the true writers’ future if…

an AI generated fire flower,
an illustration for my novel "The Second Herald"

Just before my last project, connected with extensive use of ChatGPT for SEO, I have had a pleasure in meditations digging out ideas that still thrill me with their depth. It’s not a joke. I do not boast any intellectual abilities here. Those ideas are not mine at all. They are just ideas. And that’s the key point. All I did is just meditating. That’s all.

Just as the Bible says: “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known” (Jeremiah 33:3), we have a source for wisdom and knowledge much more powerful than any AI tool. 

For those who are not a believer, I also have some ground to base your hope upon. Any true writer takes one’s inspiration and ideas from… life… Real life has always been and will always be much richer any artificial thing which is just a small particle in the living stream, nothing more. So, my dear peers, we should not be afraid of upcoming AI era. It has even its advantages I hope to discuss here in my blog or in social networks.