Chat GPT for Finding Forgotten Films

I just wanted to give a heads up to everybody about using chat gpt to find movies that you have a vague memory of, and can't recall the names.

I have been looking for a film for about 10 years and I just decided to give it a shot tonight to see if i could find it and after messing around for maybe 10 minutes, and describing the scenes I remember, it was able to track it down! And, it's on Tubi!

I'm just getting into ai and it's actually really incredible stuff! You just got to slap it around sometimes to get it to work harder, and it might find your lost movie!



"Urbania is a 2000 independent drama film based on the play Urban Folk Tales. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, then played the Toronto International Film Festival, the Seattle Film Festival, and a number of LGBT film festivals, winning a total of 6 "Best Film" awards." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbania_(film)

https://tubitv.com/movies/518183/urbania

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Interesting. I used to love finding those for people. I guess that’s the end of that, too. Will go test if it can find Fled, which led to me discovering MoFo.

Cool. And this works better than just typing the same into google? (How?)

Chat GPT for everything.

Google doesnt "understand" what your describing it just gives you key matches. You can actually tell chatgpt what its doing right or wrong to guide the search and it will try to "understand" your search.


In this case i think it being an indie film, the scenes not being easy to describe, and not ultra specific made google difficult.

Including your job, probably.

I see. Well I have a few unidentified movies myself that I've given up on finding with google. Maybe I should give it a go.

Do it, and report back.

I'm not happy about it! as for the jobs... new ones will be created, they say.

Chat GPT told them to say that

It's already in control... we just don't know it yet.

Anyways, I wasn't able to find another film that I've also been searching for the last ten years, but it's way more chaotic in it's story line, so i don't blame it. I'll report back as well.

Maybe I'll ask here on MOFO's and see who has superior knowledge. Man vs machine!

When the dementia slides in ChatGPT will help me recognize my kids and avoid getting double-billed by unscrupulous vendors.

Just tested it on a movie I’ve been chasing forever, described the scene with the creepy clown in the abandoned train car, and within two follow‑up prompts it nailed Dark Night of the Scarecrow. �� Way better than Google’s keyword spam. Feels like chatting with a film nerd who actually gets what you mean. Pro tip: after the first guess, tell it what’s off (“no, more rural setting, night scenes only”) and it’ll refine like a charm.

Holy hole in a donut, Batman, it actually found one I gave up searching for years ago. No one I asked remembered it, google search would just throw out religious movies (or Johnny Got His Gun), but this found it pretty quick... Radio Inside (1994).

I'll be darned - I don't remember it as very good, but now I wish I could find it somewhere online to watch it, just to see how much comes back to me (I only remember the kid having conversations with Jesus). Cool, took me ages, but now I can mark it as watched.

I just tested it out on a few films. It’s very good and very helpful! Would definitely recommend others to try that if they are unsure about a movie.

Glad i can actually help

OK here goes:


So for the test I chose this movie ID:
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=60996


And I can say right away that ChatGPT definitely hasn't seen this movie either


The experiment was however pretty interesting..


What this thing does really well is it lets you know that it understands exactly what you're trying to tell it and it does it in a highly articulated way and so even though you know you're talking to a program, your brain will behave like you're talking to a human being and have you answering in a polite and as well worded manner as possible. It's pretty weird.


What really reveals that you're talking to a machine looking through a data base is all the very obviously way off suggestions, although I got some interesting suggestions too that I'd probably enjoy watching.


I will experiment more with it for movie ID's but what I suspect is probably its best use is as a similar movies finder:


What you do is you pick your favorite movie in the genre you want to watch, tell ChatGPT you don't know its title and want to ID it, describe it vaguely with emphasis on the parts who's vibes matches your desired type of movie and when ChatGPT suggests the movie you're describing you just say "No", but you mention the suggestion you like the most as being closest to the movie you pretend to want to ID and keep going until you have some interesting choices or get fed up.


Seriously, I think it would work pretty well for that

So its main forte may not be in identifying movies but here's another example just to show how sophisticated it is in mimicking a human in conversation:


This is the movie ID I chose:
https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=60995


I gave some additional details but here's the main part of the description:


From what I can remember, I think most of the movie takes place on a boat or on a train. One of the main characters, a dark haired young woman, is shot and killed while sleeping near the end of the movie


I then got “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) as a suggestion


So I responded:


OK so is a woman shot and killed in bed towards the end in “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017)?


Now check out the answer I got and how it almost seems to pick up tone and corrects itself in a scary human like fashion with lazy like flaws and all:





Spooky stuff

I'd rather forget.

Says the man with a camera.