what is your view? is it the end of humanity or a bit more of a benign force? well, it could be somewhere in between, i would say. i mean, ithink, like a lot of people, so i ve toyed around with like the chat bots and things, and things like that, chatgpt. we d actually, we d wrapped on this latest series of black mirror and then, and then the next month chatg pt came out. one of our episodes is quite timely. there s a sort of ai generated imagery thing going on in one of our episodes. but i toyed around with chatgpt and you sort of type in like, come up with a black mirror storyline, or something like that or, say something in the style of philomena cunk, or something like that, and it will do, it will spit out something that at first glance you get a kind of sudden spike of dread and think, that s it, i m out of a job, this thing has replaced me, because it looks convincing. but that s really. where we re at at the moment, that s really what it s doing, it s just sort
i quite often am a news avoider, in fact, sometimes. so i used to do, obviously i did end of year shows quite often. i think this is one of the reasons why i don t watch much of the news any more, partly because i get it. if something major happens, it s inescapable anyway. hello, i m charlie brooker and you re watching the screenwipe review of 2009. swine flu traversed the globe smearing misery and ominous news graphics wherever it went. there was also a very small man that we weren t being encouraged to laugh at in any way, shape orform. in fact, i m laughing so much, i m forgetting about all the bad things in the world. he laughs sarcastically i would have to sort of summarise the year which involved watching a lot of footage, obviously. and that would ruin my christmas every year. it would really depress me sometimes. it would genuinely get me down. because of how much horror had gone on through the year or.? yeah. and you re trying to, you re not making light of it, you re making,