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How Tony Gilroy is Keeping 'Andor' Scripts Safe From AI
The topic of Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood has never been hotter. People are worried about these programs stealing their ideas or their own work being used to train these LLMs to replace them eventually. Leading the charge is Tony Gilroy, an esteemed writer of film and TV who is currently showrunning and writing on Disney's Andor. The hit show is about the Star Wars world right before Rogue One, where a group of spies tries to infiltrate the Empire. But Gilroy doesn't just want the Empire to lose, he also wants to protect his storytelling from AI. Gilroy recently said in an interview with Collider that he won't be releasing his Andor scripts to the public. That's a shame because I love reading his work and seeing finished TV scripts. But publishing those scripts is just too big a risk for Gilroy. He said, "In the end, it would be 1,500 pages that came directly off this desk. I mean, terribly sadly, it's just too much of an X-ray and too easily absorbed. Why help the f***ing robots any more than you can? So, it was an ego thing. It was vanity that makes you want to do it, and the downside is real. So, vanity loses."This is a strong move from the writer-director. And probably a smart one. Every day, AI programs are being used all over and are being trained to take jobs. Even though the WGA was able to safeguard most writers from this during the last strike, we've seen how Large Language Models have scoured the internet and accessed screenplays posted places. It can be hard to guard from that, but keeping your own work off the internet is a start. And the worst part is that it keeps valuable lessons out of the hands of people who may want to learn from the show. But you really have no choice because once those PDFs are posted, they're being read. It's a complicated issue we'll keep our eyes on. Let me know what you think in the comments.
The topic of Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood has never been hotter. People are worried about these programs stealing their ideas or their own work being used to train these LLMs to replace them eventually.
Leading the charge is Tony Gilroy, an esteemed writer of film and TV who is currently showrunning and writing on Disney's Andor. The hit show is about the Star Wars world right before Rogue One, where a group of spies tries to infiltrate the Empire.
But Gilroy doesn't just want the Empire to lose, he also wants to protect his storytelling from AI.
Gilroy recently said in an interview with Collider that he won't be releasing his Andor scripts to the public. That's a shame because I love reading his work and seeing finished TV scripts.
But publishing those scripts is just too big a risk for Gilroy.
He said, "In the end, it would be 1,500 pages that came directly off this desk. I mean, terribly sadly, it's just too much of an X-ray and too easily absorbed. Why help the f***ing robots any more than you can? So, it was an ego thing. It was vanity that makes you want to do it, and the downside is real. So, vanity loses."
This is a strong move from the writer-director. And probably a smart one. Every day, AI programs are being used all over and are being trained to take jobs.
Even though the WGA was able to safeguard most writers from this during the last strike, we've seen how Large Language Models have scoured the internet and accessed screenplays posted places. It can be hard to guard from that, but keeping your own work off the internet is a start.
And the worst part is that it keeps valuable lessons out of the hands of people who may want to learn from the show. But you really have no choice because once those PDFs are posted, they're being read.
It's a complicated issue we'll keep our eyes on.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
