Charlie Brooker, creator of the popular dystopian television series “Black Mirror,” claims he “played around” with an AI-enabled chatbot to compose an episode for the sixth season of the series, only to be disappointed in the end.
After composing several episodes for the cult show, set in a high-tech near future where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest inclinations converge, Brooker stated that testing the theory in real life was like “a nice, cold glass of water in the face”.
The creator and co-showrunner of “Black Mirror,” Brooker, stated that he tested ChatGPT to determine whether AI (artificial intelligence) technology could compose a new episode.
There was almost an AI-written episode of Black Mirror in season 6.
“I’ve experimented with ChatGPT a little bit. “The first thing I did was type in ‘generate Black Mirror episode,’ and it generated something that, at first glance, reads plausibly, but at second glance, is garbage,” the writer told Empire magazine.
Brooker, 52, stated that all the program did was “look up the synopses of each episode of ‘Black Mirror’ and sort of mash them together.”
“Then, if you dig a little deeper, you realize, ‘Oh, there’s no real original thought here,'” he continued.
After being disappointed by technology, the Emmy winner decided it was time to attempt something different.
“I was aware that I had written many episodes in which the protagonist exclaims, ‘Oh, I was inside a computer the whole time!’ So I thought, ‘I’m just going to throw out any preconceived notions of what a ‘Black Mirror’ episode is.’ “If you can’t break your own rules, there’s no point in having an anthology show,” he said.
Season six of “Black Mirror” features four additional standalone episodes with Aaron Paul, Annie Murphy, Salma Hayek Pinault, Ben Barnes, Michael Cera, Himesh Patel, and Zazie Beetz in the starring roles. The content will begin streaming on Netflix on June 15