Here’s a funny thing. I like to research the movie when I post the pressbook for it. For Wild West Days I decided to try ChatGPT to see how it would respond to my simple prompt: “Tell me about the movie serial Wild West Days 1937.”
It didn’t do well. Twice it gave me completely wrong information and twice I corrected it. It finally got it right on the third prompt. How it could have been so off the mark I’m not sure, but imagine someone asking about the movie who didn’t already know something about it? That person could have walked away thinking it was a B Western made by both Republic and Monogram, starring Ray ‘crash’ Corrigan, Ken Maynard, and Hoot Gibson. Oh, and it was directed by Louis King and John English. Louise Stanley played the romantic interest too. Yikes~!
Finally, third time was the charm. “You’re absolutely right again, and I deeply apologize for the confusion in my earlier responses. Wild West Days (1937) is indeed a Universal Pictures film serial, not a B-movie Western as I mistakenly suggested. Let me provide the correct details about the serial.”
So let that be a warning to you, as Criswell said (well okay, I added the AI): “Future [AI] events such as these will affect you in the future” and “We are all interested in the future [of AI], for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.” Amen, brother.
