ChatGPT Was Tasked With Writing An Episode For Black Mirror & Failed Tremendously – SlashGear

While the “Black Mirror” creator couldn’t get OpenAI’s chatbot to generate a cool episode idea, he landed at a contrarian positive from the experience. Since ChatGPT was essentially giving episode ideas that looked like a potpourri of existing “Black Mirror” tropes, Brooker realized those were the plot points he should avoid to maintain the originality that his TV show is known for.

Unlike Brooker, who has an industry reputation to maintain, there are folks who have successfully put the AI to the test. One example is an actual film created by extensively using ChatGPT. Aaron Kemmer — whose company made the first 3D printer that works in zero gravity after collaborating with NASA — detailed on Twitter how his team used ChatGPT to generate hundreds of film ideas, write a script, plan each shot, decide on costumes, and finish the entire film in just seven days.

The whole endeavor itself sounds like a dystopian “Black Mirror” plot, where human effort has been entirely ditched in favor of machine output, even when it comes to something as creatively demanding as a film. At the same time, there’s ample resentment and backlash from the community of writers, designers, and other folks employed by the industry who are protesting against the use of generative AI tools to replace them, even though those AI programs have been trained on their own human work.