Ngl, I’m writing a sitcom right now and I’ve taken inspiration from ChatGPT responses. In fact, when I prompted it with the basic concept of my show idea, it spit out a cast of characters similar to the ones I had already envisioned; that’s likely because I was going off of basic character archetypes that everyone uses. But what that told me is I needed to make my show stand out more, that it was already predictable.

From my experience, ChatGPT is leagues away from replacing actual writers, but it can spit out a cookie-cutter plot or cast of characters, that will then need to be revised and improved upon by an actual writer. At this point, it makes for a somewhat useful tool that writers can use, but will it someday replace us? Yes, probably.