Owen Williams, writing for Empire Magazine, has a story about how Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker recently enlisted the help of AI chatbot ChatGPT to create an episode.

“I’ve toyed around with ChatGPT a bit,” Brooker reveals in the new issue of Empire. “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 lack of originality with ChatGPT is interesting here. It’s not good enough to generate something super creative like an episode of Black Mirror. I think ChatGPT is ok at “copywriting” and not good at all with “creative writing.”