Would you watch these cheesy holiday movies written by AI?

An AI-generated movie poster for the AI generated holiday movie premise: "Santa's Helpers."

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Holiday movies bring comfort and tug at heartstrings in the cheesiest ways. So, in our tech obsessed culture, what would happen if AI tried to take over and write a classic holiday movie? 

That goofy premise was put to the test in a novel case study presumably designed to remind me that writers are yet again dispensable.

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A team at Cinch Home Services used AI to create 12 Hallmark-style holiday movies and asked holiday movie fans to rank them based on description. The movies even came with AI-generated movie posters. 

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This isn't a new idea. The film industry is already utilizing powerful story generator algorithms in a variety of popular script writing programs. These apps utilize machine learning and natural language processing to build on inputs from storytellers. Examples include platforms such as Jasper, which has a useful feature called Longform Assistant, which storytellers can use to build characters and story ideas.

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