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Artificial writer responds to OpenAI boss slamming film as ‘awful’

City A.M.

Artificial writer responds to OpenAI boss slamming film as ‘awful’

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The Artificial film about OpenAI is premiering at the London Film Festival this week AI movie Artificial premiered at the London Film Festival this week, chronicling the origin story of OpenAI founder Sam Altman. Last month Altman, the man behind ChatGPT and one of the world’s leading figures in AI, said it looked like “an awful movie” after watching the trailer. Speaking to City AM, Artificial writer Simon Rich responded to Altman’s criticism, saying his film is “extremely accurate”. “Even the tweets you see on the screen are verbatim and time stamped,” he said. “And for legal reasons we had to go above and beyond the normal Hollywood accuracy bar. A lot of movies are ‘quote unquote’ based on a true story but this is a legitimately true story.

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