‘Black Mirror’ Creator Says ChatGPT Wrote a ‘S—‘ Episode When He Tested It: No ‘Real Original Thought’
thewrap.comBrooker said to Empire in an article released Tuesday. “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.’ It’s [1970s impressionist] Mike Yarwood — there’s a topical reference.”The chatbot, created by developer OpenAI, is a large language model, meaning it only mimics the large quantities of pre-existing texts it consumes from across the internet.
It is not, despite claims to the contrary, artificial intelligence of any kind.ChatGPT has been the subject of much trepidation in Hollywood as the Writers Guild strike continues into its second month.
Writers are fighting to implement safeguards that would prevent AI from replacing them in writers’ rooms, with ChatGPT being a primary talking point.
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