Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker might be between seasons of making his dystopian Netflix hit, but the writer is still thinking of novel ways that technology might dampen our future.

Hollywood writers often dread getting notes from studio executives about their scripts. But Brooker sees a way this creative process could get even worse — if executives start showing their scripts to an AI model.

Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Brooker described a scenerio where scripts would be fed into a machine that could produce an animated rough cut (an “AI animatic”) of the film from which studio changes could be suggested.

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker might be between seasons of making his dystopian Netflix hit, but the writer is still thinking of novel ways that technolog

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