Black Mirror Creator Tried Using ChatGPT to Write an Episode: “It Was Sh*t”

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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has told Empire in a new interview that he tried to use ChatGPT to write an episode, but it didn't turned out as well as he'd expected. "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 sh*t," Brooker said, going on to accuse the AI chatbot of merely taking the synopses of older Black Mirror episodes and mushing them together. "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.” Black Mirror is currently in its sixth season, whose stars include Aaron Paul, Ben Barnes, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, and Salma Hayek.

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Give it time and a bit of feedback

ChatGPT won't go on strike.
 
ChatGPT is a tool, you can give the best chisel to a fool, he won't be able to come up with Michelangelo.

Garbage in garbage out.

Rant time: ChatGPT is not that different to human writing, because humans are also incapable of originality. No, I'm not being facetious. When someone creates something they draw on their life experience, the things they saw thus far. Much like the training data for the AI model. Depending on how they combine the things they experienced it is possible to come up with SG that nobody else did before but that doesn't mean it is original.

This is kind of the reason why modern writers can't write good stories. They are plucked right from schools, no life experience, never had to fend for themselves, chosen based on ideology and diversity, not talent or experience.
 
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