The presentation of the Apple Vision Pro, in addition to driving the internet in general and the sector completely crazy techies In particular, it managed to make our beloved anthology ‘Black Mirror’ a trending topic for more than obvious reasons. The dystopias raised by Charlie Brooker are every time a little more realand the producer and scriptwriter has been able to verify it first hand with the happy ChatGPT.
The power of the rehash
In an interview with Empire, Brooker has confessed that tested the famous artificial intelligence chatbot to try to create an episode of its star series, and the experience was anything but satisfactory. Thus he explained what were his simple instructions and the disappointing response that good old GPT gave him.
“I’ve had some fun with ChatGPT. The first thing I did was type ‘generate Black Mirror episode’ and it gave me something that, at first glance, seemed plausible. But on closer inspection, it’s bullshit. Because all it has The fact is, you look up all the Black Mirror episode synopses and mix them together. And if you dig a little deeper, you realize there’s not really any original thinking here.”
Of course, Charlie Brooker got something positive out of this experience. The hodgepodge of clichés and stereotypes that ChatGPT offered as a premise for an episode of ‘Black Mirror’ served to gain awareness of what not to do in the future.
“I was aware that I had written a lot of episodes where someone says ‘Oh, I was inside a computer the whole time!’ So I thought, ‘I’m going to scrap any idea of what I think a Black Mirror episode is.’ There’s no point in having an anthology if you can’t break your own rules. It’s like a nice glass of cold water in the face.”
If you look closely, Brooker’s words about ChatGPT scriptwriter pretty much align with what Craig Mazin said, who labeled him a “phony” after testing it on the ‘Scriptnotes’ podcast. There, Mazin himself, John August and Rian Johnson, asked the tool to write a premise for a hypothetical ‘Backstabbing 3’, only to receive another tangle of recycled commonplaces. This is how he analyzed the result:
“I love how what this thing is doing is basically a great job being a fake. I’ve seen this in writers’ rooms where people start throwing ideas around and it’s all based on cadence and trust. Then you realize account: ‘They have not told me anything.’ From my point of view ChatGPT does not seem to me that it is a threat to the writers. It seems to me a threat to the producers who go around saying things like this”.
It is clear that things do not look like ChatGPT will become the new Aaron Sorkin. In fact, I just asked if it’s going to take the job of the writers and the response has been a self-healing of humility.
“I can provide ideas, suggestions and answers based on the knowledge I’ve gained during my training, but creativity and the art of writing are still unique human talents. Screenwriters have perspective and creative skills that are invaluable and quintessentially human.”
It shows, GPT. Noticeable…
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