Good feedback from AI is not that different from receiving feedback from people around you. My brother and I once threw a lot of money into a proof-of-concept film because we were blinded by the encouragement and agreeableness that people around us were expressing. We weren’t recognizing that they were just trying to be nice to us and not hurt our feelings. They were active screenwriters and filmmakers just like us and just like us, they would need our help when the time came. That’s why all of our feedback was watered down heavily. Only one of our friends told us the truth and you know what we did? We respectively ignored the advice. Film-wise, it turned out great because the team was amazingly talented. But the story fell significantly short of what it could have been, if only we had turned our egos off for a second and insist that people give us their complete, gloves-off opinion. It’s the same when engaging with AI, but actually easier to handle since you’re just working with your own mental barriers instead of two. Bottom line. You just gotta come into it with the understanding that it will be a yes man. You can do prompting and that can really help if you design it well, but even then, it pales in comparison to a guy like Dov Siemen who is hilariously legendary when it comes to wrecking screenplays and bursting people’s bubbles. That’s honestly why I don’t often ask for it’s opinion. Instead, I might ask it to compare a scene to all the other movies that are out there and spot the cliches. If I ask questions with the implicit assumption that whatever I wrote is garbage, it’ll riff off of that and assume with me, which causes it to focus less on justifying why my story is so great and more on what could be wrong. It’s the same with people. If you simply ask for their input, they’ll water it down with praise. You have to specifically instruct people to find the problems and emphasize the truth over hurting your feelings. Do the same with AI and you’ll have far less problems with feedback. So, don’t ask questions like, “Is this good?” or “Will people understand this?” Ask questions like, “This dialogue is terrible. How can we fix it.” or “This scene feels draggy and boring. We need to find what’s missing.” Come into it with the assumption that your work is poor, even if it isn’t. Force it to identify the problems. Otherwise, it’ll suck your…Well, you know. submitted by /u/CyborgWriter
Originally posted by u/CyborgWriter on r/ArtificialInteligence