{"id":5796,"date":"2023-01-05T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:00:58","slug":"500-film-directors-in-a-graph-i-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/05\/500-film-directors-in-a-graph-i-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Film Directors in a Graph I (ChatGPT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I drew a connected graph of 500 film directors based on the replies of ChatGPT. In every prompt, I asked the chatbot to recommend me five similar film directors for a certain name. I started with some well known directors but the graph got connected after some prompts. I imported the results to a graph application called Graph Commons for visualization. I was aiming to inject more data, but the free subscription of Graph Commons only accepts 500 nodes. It’s also nice, at least gave me a closure. I’ll take a look at the results, hopefully in the coming days. If you want to visit the graph and play with it, here’s the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Method<\/h4>\n

In all my prompts, I asked ChatGPT to give me 5 film directors similar to the one I give with the following prompt:<\/p>\n

Forget everything we talked about. List top 5 film directors similar to Lav Diaz. Don’t add explanations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first sentence was just an attempt to avoid drawing circles based on the earlier responses but I found out that it probably doesn’t have any actual impact. I gathered the responses in a Google Sheet and imported back to Graph Commons.<\/p>\n

I selected the film director names randomly but I tried to widen the graph to make it more diverse. My approach was not a systematic one but I tried to give names that are located on the child nodes to start something new or locate these names better in the graph. A practical example: I didn’t query all the Hollywood action movie directors to avoid discovering the outskirts of this genre. Instead, I focused on Japanese or Serbian directors since I’m also more interested in them, especially for discovering new films. But this leads me to the…<\/p>\n

Limitations<\/h4>\n

Disclaimer: please take this graph as a joke or as a delirium since none of the nodes or the edges have any kind of justification. It’s just a dream of an AI chatbot that I intervened with my dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n

That said, here are some limitations on top of my head:<\/p>\n