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
imitates upper class accent: you know, i always have to adopt a voice like that if i m sort of. yes, so a warning about our darkest fears and reflecting ourselves back. why am i talking like this? no, it s, it s. is itjust because you re british? in fact. because i m embarrassed. exactly. i think that, you know, in my head, the dark playfulness of the show is never far away and often the ideas actually come out of a sort of comedy conversation in a way. and i am thinking about, you know, something, an idea that makes me laugh that then quite often we play straight. having said that, in this season, we ve got a mix of some of the episodes that are overtly horror. there s been a bit of a change this season. there s one where i did actually gasp out loud and had to cover my eyes. oh, good, good. mission accomplished. but then we ve also got like, there s an episode called joan is awful, which is an out and out comedy. so, you know, hopefully there s a mix and we ve got quite some retro fu
it became, i think, in people s heads, a thing that was just about technology. that wasn t really where it started. it sort of started in weird and wonderful, like the first story s sort of not really just about tech. and so, that was really it, was to try to. but the black mirror, the term. sorry to interrupt. black mirror, did that originally refer to, i saw that you said it referred to the screen through which we live our lives. so that s a sort of tech. kind of. but it s also a metaphor for something else, presumably. it was, it was sort of like literally when you, when a phone or an ipad or a tv is off, it sort of looks like a black mirror when you re looking at it. also, to be honest, ijust thought that sounds like a cool, slightly spooky name for an anthology. turns out you were right. so, so there was a lot of that going on. i just thought, that sounds good. but a mirror on our darkest thoughts as well, perhaps? yes. but the fact that you had to do that voice for that implies t