Can Chatbots Help You with Creative Works?

It probably can. Sort of.

First, a tale from film history. Max Sennett (along with Hal Roach) was an early pioneer of silent comedy. He produced hundreds of reels starring such greats as Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon, Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, The Keystone Cops, and W. C. Fields. According to histories of early Hollywood comedy, during gag conferences at Sennett’s studio, they sometimes seated a “wild man” among the writers. His job, reportedly, was to generate the raw, outlandish seed-ideas — what some called the “wildies.” Continue reading “Can Chatbots Help You with Creative Works?”