Charlie Brooker

We did an episode last season, we did an episode called Joan is Awful, where it's a woman called Joan, played by Annie Murphy, switches on the TV and sees the streaming platform that's showing a drama, a dramatization of her life starring Salma Hayek. And that's a very Twilight Zone story in many ways. In the Twilight Zone, it would have been like magic or it would have been the uncanny.

We can sort of say it's AI deepfake video. It's that. So you're sort of coming at it from that angle. I probably should go and speak to more sort of tech. Because sometimes there's things like, sometimes there's things where I've put it in the episode thinking I'm being very clever here. And then you realize, oh, it's actually the honeybees. We did an episode in season...

We can sort of say it's AI deepfake video. It's that. So you're sort of coming at it from that angle. I probably should go and speak to more sort of tech. Because sometimes there's things like, sometimes there's things where I've put it in the episode thinking I'm being very clever here. And then you realize, oh, it's actually the honeybees. We did an episode in season...

We can sort of say it's AI deepfake video. It's that. So you're sort of coming at it from that angle. I probably should go and speak to more sort of tech. Because sometimes there's things like, sometimes there's things where I've put it in the episode thinking I'm being very clever here. And then you realize, oh, it's actually the honeybees. We did an episode in season...

three um called hated in the nation which is where we first had these drone uh autonomous drone miniature honeybees that were going around replaced because i'd read something about honeybees dying out right and um colony collapse and then and and then i thought oh well what if you had little miniature drone ones that could fly around and um pollinate flowers and i thought i was being very clever and then discovered that i think that the experiment had been running for

three um called hated in the nation which is where we first had these drone uh autonomous drone miniature honeybees that were going around replaced because i'd read something about honeybees dying out right and um colony collapse and then and and then i thought oh well what if you had little miniature drone ones that could fly around and um pollinate flowers and i thought i was being very clever and then discovered that i think that the experiment had been running for

three um called hated in the nation which is where we first had these drone uh autonomous drone miniature honeybees that were going around replaced because i'd read something about honeybees dying out right and um colony collapse and then and and then i thought oh well what if you had little miniature drone ones that could fly around and um pollinate flowers and i thought i was being very clever and then discovered that i think that the experiment had been running for

Well, the most unusual one. Well, there's definitely this. Okay, so there's an episode we did back in season two called Be Right Back, where it's Hayley Atwell and Donald Gleeson, and Hayley plays this woman called Martha whose husband dies in an accident. It's almost a companion piece to Common People this season. Yep. And anyway, she is off a date. She's missing him.

Well, the most unusual one. Well, there's definitely this. Okay, so there's an episode we did back in season two called Be Right Back, where it's Hayley Atwell and Donald Gleeson, and Hayley plays this woman called Martha whose husband dies in an accident. It's almost a companion piece to Common People this season. Yep. And anyway, she is off a date. She's missing him.

Well, the most unusual one. Well, there's definitely this. Okay, so there's an episode we did back in season two called Be Right Back, where it's Hayley Atwell and Donald Gleeson, and Hayley plays this woman called Martha whose husband dies in an accident. It's almost a companion piece to Common People this season. Yep. And anyway, she is off a date. She's missing him.

She's discovered she's pregnant. She's desperate to just be able to, if only he knew this, only she could talk to him. She's offered this service, which allows her to communicate with him from, and it's an AI that's based on his social media output. I didn't realize at the time, It felt to me like something that would become possible.

She's discovered she's pregnant. She's desperate to just be able to, if only he knew this, only she could talk to him. She's offered this service, which allows her to communicate with him from, and it's an AI that's based on his social media output. I didn't realize at the time, It felt to me like something that would become possible.

She's discovered she's pregnant. She's desperate to just be able to, if only he knew this, only she could talk to him. She's offered this service, which allows her to communicate with him from, and it's an AI that's based on his social media output. I didn't realize at the time, It felt to me like something that would become possible.

I didn't realize how closely that mimics what large language models and that's now a service.

I didn't realize how closely that mimics what large language models and that's now a service.

I didn't realize how closely that mimics what large language models and that's now a service.

That's difficult, isn't it?

That's difficult, isn't it?

That's difficult, isn't it?

Because what you're describing there, that's what, that's the, that's the, that sounds like the high-tech equivalent of, it's almost like, it's like when you, you know, you could read the diaries of Samuel Pepys in the sort of whatever century and you get, and suddenly that period of history becomes alive and you feel, because you were hearing somebody's thoughts in the mind.