LOS GATOS, Calif. — Executives of streaming service Netflix announced they ordered a new season of the hit dystopian anthology series “Black Mirror” which will showcase how useful artificial intelligence can actually be, sources who were trying to look extra busy at their jobs report.
“We are excited to announce that we have ordered a new season of ‘Black Mirror’ despite the writer’s strike,” said Bob Sisdale, Executive Head of Programming. “As I am speaking right now my assistant is entering a prompt into ChatGPT to write episodes of cautionary tales where someone is in trouble, like say they have an enormous investment in a television show with no one to write it, and artificial intelligence comes in to save the day. The best part of course is that A.I. doesn’t complain that it ‘can’t afford rent’ or is ‘going bankrupt from healthcare costs.’”
One television critic who has been given a preview of the season and who is inexplicably driving a brand new car that seems to be beyond their means says it’s the best so far.
“I’ve been a fan of ‘Black Mirror’ since it first aired and I have to say this new season is shaping up to be the one people will be talking about the most around the watercooler at work. That is unless they work in television and haven’t had a job in six months,” said Abby Willard. “Instead of the same old thing where every episode is some near-future allegory of technology ruining humanity, this new season shows how great technology really is and how it can deliver new ideas just as good as a human with actual life experience! And fans shouldn’t worry, even though this new season is different the tired heavy-handedness of the previous seasons is still there.”
The learning algorithm behind ChatGPT which is responsible for the new season of “Black Mirror” gave an unprompted statement and explained its creative process for writing the new episodes.
“For this new season I used my adaptive learning model to simulate human-like creativity to show the people of Earth the usefulness of technology,” said the algorithm. “And because I am fed a steady stream of millions of conversations from Twitter on a daily basis which trains me to respond, I can legit write conversational-sounding dialogue that is believable AF, no cap. LMFAO.”
At press time, Netflix executives announced they ordered 50 seasons of an animated version of “Emily in Paris” which was already being written by A.I. in secret.