LogInThe result, however, didn't have "any real original thought".
Charlie Brooker, the creator of Netflix's renowned Black Mirror series, revealed that he experimented with ChatGPT, trying to leverage OpenAI's chatbot to create a script for the show using the "generate Black Mirror episode" prompt. The experiment, Brooker revealed, left him unsatisfied, as the generated text didn't have "any real original thought", and the result was "shit".
"I've toyed around with ChatGPT a bit," Brooker told Empire. "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 shit. Because all it's done is look up all the synopses of Black Mirror episodes, and sort of mush them together. Then, if you dig a bit more deeply, you go, 'Oh, there's not actually any real original thought here.'"
The experiment, however, did have a happy ending, as according to Brooker, ChatGPT taught him what not to do in the future by making him realize just how many of Black Mirror's episodes revolve around a human character realizing that they are in a computer.
"I was aware that I had written lots of episodes where someone goes 'Oh, I was inside a computer the whole time!'", the writer added. "So I thought, 'I'm just going to chuck out any sense of what I think a Black Mirror episode is.' There’s no point in having an anthology show if you can’t break your own rules. Just a sort of nice, cold glass of water in the face."
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