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Winning “Best Pitch”: Engineering AI Character Resilience at Meta

What happens when you apply the timeless logic of a PhD in Screenwriting to the frontier of Artificial Intelligence? At a recent internal Meta Hackathon, my team set out to answer that by stress-testing AI characters against the “Social Code” of storytelling. Our project, which applied Pixar’s storytelling frameworks to AI character creation, was awarded […]

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Narrative Engineering: Solving the “Ghost in the Machine”

Have you ever collaborated with an AI on a long script or novel, only to find that by chapter five, your character sounds like a generic, overly-polite robot? In the industry, we call this “voice drift,” and it’s the quickest way to lose your audience. As a Narrative Engineer, I don’t just ask the AI

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Why you should listen to Richard Walter’s podcast

Richard Walter is a distinguished storytelling teacher, film industry expert, and former co-chair of UCLA’s renowned TFT Graduate Program in Screenwriting. A screenwriter and published novelist himself, his most recent publication is Essentials of Screenwriting (St Martin Press 2010). I plan to add Richard’s book as the next entry in The Toolbox (totellastory.net/the-toolbox) Walter has

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