Black Mirror creator attempted to use ChatGPT to write an episode

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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker attempted to write an episode with ChatGPT, and it's safe to say it failed miserably.

that explore tech’s impact on our lives, but the chatbot’s chance to be credited for an episode didn’t quite make the cut.‘The first thing I did was type “generate Black Mirror episode” and it comes up with something that, at first glance, reads plausibly, but on second glance, is s***.

‘Because all it’s done is look up all the synopses of Black Mirror episodes, and sort of mush them together,’ he added when speaking toHe added: ‘Then if you dig a bit more deeply you go, “Oh, there’s not actually any real original thought here.” It’s [1970s impressionist] Mike Yarwood — there’s a topical reference.’

However he did say that ChatGPT highlighted some of the repetitive tropes in his show, then pushing him to be even more experimental.‘I was aware that I had written lots of episodes where someone goes “Oh, I was inside a computer the whole time”. So I thought, “I’m just going to chuck out any sense of what I think a Black Mirror episode is”.

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