Black Mirror Creator Says He Used ChatGPT To Write An Episode. It Was Terrible.

Kevin Hurler

Published 13 hours ago: June 11, 2023 at 12:00 pm

Artificial intelligence being responsible for 4,000 job cuts last month certainly sounds like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode. Luckily for him, showrunner Charlie Booker’s job appears to be safe, at least according to the man himself. Booker says he used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write an episode of Black Mirror ahead of the show’s sixth season, but dubbed it “shit.”

Booker revealed in an interview with Empire that he’s played around with ChatGPT for his own work in writing television, but the results…