A movie theater in London’s West End has cancelled a public premier of the film “The Last Screenwriter,” written by “ChatGPT 4.0”, because of backlash over a film being written by AI. The director of the film told The Daily Beast that the theater shut down the event after getting 200 complaints. As host Marco Werman tells us, the director says the movie wasn’t intended to be controversial — it was intended to be “a contribution to the cause.”
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