While his experiments with generating an episode of Black Mirror with AI might have been deemed a failure, Booker told the outlet that it did point out some of his writing clichés.
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“I was aware that I had written lots of episodes where someone goes ‘Oh, I was inside a computer the whole time!’,” he said. “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.”
As evidenced by Booker’s experiment, relying solely on AI to generate engaging material is a fool’s errand. Artificial intelligence is actually really stupid, considering it can only repackage ideas that already exist, and using it solely to create content is a hilariously bad idea. Buzzfeed announced earlier this year that AI would be creating its iconic quizzes, and, as expected, the results were odd. At the same time, tech outlet CNET doubled down on its AI writer after the tech published dozens of articles that were riddled with errors.
Booker’s revelation is also part of a much wider reckoning in television, and its a key point of contention in the ongoing writer’s strike, which has entered its second month. While the Writers Guild of America is protesting for greater residuals from streaming services and championing to cut Netflix executive pay bonuses, the labor union is also fighting against the tide of an AI revolution. While Booker and the WGA both recognize that AI could be a tool for creating better television, the latter wants to make it clear to studios that it has no place as a complete and total replacement to human writers.
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