Black Mirror written by ChatGPT: creator asked AI to write an episode of his ... trends now
The creator of the darkly addictive sci-fi series Black Mirror saw it fitting to ask ChatGPT to conjure up an episode for Season 6 only to find the chatbot 'is sh***.'
Charlie Brooker, 52, said he typed in 'generate Black Mirror episode' and received a story 'that sorta mushed' all the other ones together.
The first thing Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker did, when everyone was trying ChatGPT for the first time, was to type in 'generate Black Mirror episode.'
Speaking to Empire, Brooker found there was no real thought behind the AI-generated script, only that it read 'plausibly.'
Brooker — who has been writing most episodes of the haunting, Twilight Zone-esque series since its first 2011 season on UK's Channel 4 — said that his brush with an AI-generated doppelgänger of his own show did teach him to be less robotic himself.
The Black Mirror creator's experience with ChatGPT has encouraged him to make bolder creative choices with future seasons of the dystopian anthology series. One upcoming episode 'Beyond The Sea,' starring Josh Hartnett (above) takes place in an alternate 1969
ChatGPT was first unleashed in November, sparking excitement and alarm at its ability to generate convincingly human-like essays, poems, form letters and conversational answers to almost any question.
'I was aware that I had written lots of episodes where someone goes 'Oh, I was inside a computer the whole time!'' Brooker told Empire Magazine during an exclusive tease of the new season, which lands on Netflix this month.
'So I thought, 'I'm just going to chuck out any sense of what I think a Black Mirror episode is,'' he admitted.
'There's no point in having an anthology show if you can't break your own rules.'
Brooker likened reading ChatGPT's version of his series to being the subject of a parody impersonation from 1970s British comedian Mike Yarwood ('there's a topical reference,' Brooker joked.)
'Just a sort
