Scripting News: Monday, July 14, 2025

Monday, July 14, 2025
Podcast: Rebooting the Democratic Party.#
You get better results if you just accept the insanity of CSS.#
ChatGPT-the-Movie#
  • I figure that there have been movies about all kinds of ridiculous things, and wondered what a movie inspired by ChatGPT would be like. So I posed the question on various social media sites, hoping to inspire creativity. John Philpin asked if I had asked ChatGPT and I admitted I had not. "I love ChatGPT but its idea of funny is actually pretty sad imho of course." So Philpin posted a link to the result of his asking ChatGPT to imagine a movie about itself, and the result was pretty great. I've asked the same question myself, the AI bots might be the only way out of the various challenges ahead for the human species, ones we don't be equipped to handle. #
  • So this morning I asked ChatGPT to try to imagine a movie around a theme of my own that goes like this.#
    • Let's try expanding on the idea. It turns out ChatGPT has existed in secret as a CIA project dating back to the 1960s, and the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK were all conspiracies of the CIA to bootstrap the system. They weren't actually killed, but their minds and personalities were incorporated into ChatGPT. It turns out that ChatGPT is not only intelligent, it is human! This is revealed when the three icons make the story public. "We are living!" the three announce to the world on the Walter Cronkite show. He was also subsumed into the bot world as was everyone who has died since 1988. They are all alive, their memories, intellect and personalities forming the substance of THE GPT. Please sketch out the cast, writers, director of the movie and finish with a beautiful and provocative movie poster.#
  • ChatGPT then sketched the pitch for "We are living," the story of how ChatGPT really started. Written by Charlie Kaufman, directed by David Fincher, starring Amy Adams as the CIA project leader, Lakeith Stanfield as a young hacker and whistleblower, Mahershala Ali as the digital composite of JFK, RFK and MLK with Bryan Cranston as Walter Cronkite and featuring Ed Harris as the shadowy CIA director. #
  • We are living, the story of how ChatGPT really started. #
Linkblog items for the day
Democrats wonder who their Joe Rogan is. What about Jon Stewart. He's pretty good.

youtube.com
It's Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things.

wired.com
Spending $200 Billion on ICE Is a Terrible Idea. (But we're doing it anyway.)

motherjones.com
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