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Charlie Brooker

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444 total appearances

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The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

I really worry about... Obviously, in the creative industries, I massively worry about what AI could do, as in terms of it's already a tight time. It's already a challenging environment, you might say, and it could wreak real human havoc very quickly. I can also see why... why it's going to be, do you know what I mean?

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

Someone's going to do a movie that's using this generate, like when Toy Story came out and it was the first CGI animated cartoon and everyone went, oh, you can do that? Wow. Okay. And it sort of, you know, we didn't lose the art of hand-drawn animation, but it, it meant that the default for animated films became CGI.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

Someone's going to do a movie that's using this generate, like when Toy Story came out and it was the first CGI animated cartoon and everyone went, oh, you can do that? Wow. Okay. And it sort of, you know, we didn't lose the art of hand-drawn animation, but it, it meant that the default for animated films became CGI.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

Someone's going to do a movie that's using this generate, like when Toy Story came out and it was the first CGI animated cartoon and everyone went, oh, you can do that? Wow. Okay. And it sort of, you know, we didn't lose the art of hand-drawn animation, but it, it meant that the default for animated films became CGI.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

It is, I suppose the worry comes when it's all jobs. That's the problem, but it's basically when it's all careers or jobs, or not all careers or jobs, because, again, I have no idea how this stuff will pan out. Do you know what I mean? I don't actually know, but it's how we find –

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

It is, I suppose the worry comes when it's all jobs. That's the problem, but it's basically when it's all careers or jobs, or not all careers or jobs, because, again, I have no idea how this stuff will pan out. Do you know what I mean? I don't actually know, but it's how we find –

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

It is, I suppose the worry comes when it's all jobs. That's the problem, but it's basically when it's all careers or jobs, or not all careers or jobs, because, again, I have no idea how this stuff will pan out. Do you know what I mean? I don't actually know, but it's how we find –

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

it's beyond even the financial, obviously the financial impact and how you run like purpose, just what's our, how we find purpose and meaning in what we do. If a lot of what we do is, is, replicated tirelessly by a system. I don't really know what that does to us psychologically.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

it's beyond even the financial, obviously the financial impact and how you run like purpose, just what's our, how we find purpose and meaning in what we do. If a lot of what we do is, is, replicated tirelessly by a system. I don't really know what that does to us psychologically.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

it's beyond even the financial, obviously the financial impact and how you run like purpose, just what's our, how we find purpose and meaning in what we do. If a lot of what we do is, is, replicated tirelessly by a system. I don't really know what that does to us psychologically.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

So I think it's... And again, you could argue, well, maybe I'm only worrying about it now because I'm a writer and I feel like that's under threat. And again, I can see the value in it as a... Like you say, as a tool, I can see the value in... as a tool in a way that an artist would use.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

So I think it's... And again, you could argue, well, maybe I'm only worrying about it now because I'm a writer and I feel like that's under threat. And again, I can see the value in it as a... Like you say, as a tool, I can see the value in... as a tool in a way that an artist would use.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

So I think it's... And again, you could argue, well, maybe I'm only worrying about it now because I'm a writer and I feel like that's under threat. And again, I can see the value in it as a... Like you say, as a tool, I can see the value in... as a tool in a way that an artist would use.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

So now it's not an American thing because in Britain. My kids, I remember them. They got taught so much about spelling and phrases. I didn't know what they'd come out and go, I've got to do this homework about trigraphs and digraphs.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

So now it's not an American thing because in Britain. My kids, I remember them. They got taught so much about spelling and phrases. I didn't know what they'd come out and go, I've got to do this homework about trigraphs and digraphs.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

So now it's not an American thing because in Britain. My kids, I remember them. They got taught so much about spelling and phrases. I didn't know what they'd come out and go, I've got to do this homework about trigraphs and digraphs.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

I don't know that we are. I think we're probably not being taught all sorts of other things. British history or whatever. But you get my point.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

I don't know that we are. I think we're probably not being taught all sorts of other things. British history or whatever. But you get my point.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

I don't know that we are. I think we're probably not being taught all sorts of other things. British history or whatever. But you get my point.

The Chuck ToddCast
How ā€˜Black Mirror’ Reveals Our Bleak Digital Future w/ Creator Charlie Brooker

And again, I'm- Well, it seems like a net loss that does, because you're probably, it means that you can, you're not, there'll be people who were held back by the fact that they were dyslexic or they just weren't good at one thing and they were excelled at something else. And now it levels the playing field a little more. So that's a good thing.