"Andor" creator won't release scripts in order to prevent potential AI training

Recently, Gilroy said he had hoped to, and even planned on, releasing the scripts for the first season of "Andor" as a book. "We put it together. It’s really cool. I’ve seen it, I loved it," he said. So, what happened? Well, to borrow from another sci-fi franchise, the rise of the machines.

"AI is the reason we’re not," he said, before adding, "I mean, terribly sadly, it’s just too much of an X-ray and too easily  absorbed. Why help the f-----g robots anymore 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."

Unfortunately, the concern about unscrupulous, profit-driven creative corporations attempting to replace writers with AI-crafted scripts is entirely valid. While, to date, AI-generated writing has proven largely incompetent, especially within the creative realm, the more information these machines are fed, the closer to competence they get. Now, writers like Gilroy, acclaimed for their craft, have to shield their work from the world lest it fall into the wrong hands (or wrong AI interface, as it were). 

Fortunately, we can at least watch season two of "Andor" on Disney+ starting on April 22.

(h/t Variety)