Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, September 18, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m

  • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    My theory here is this episode is 4 mini episodes written by ai.

    Usually when they do an anthology or clip show they have some kind of in-universe framing device, but this almost feels like the whole screenplay was ai and they just said fuck it.

    • TheLoneMinon@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I really hope this is the case and they were trying to prove a point in favor of the striking writers… otherwise I may skip the rest of this season. Its been okay, if a bit stale, but this was one was disheartening.

      • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Extremely doubt that. These episodes have been in production for a long time, way before the strike and hell likely before the current AI craze of the last year or two

        • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          ChatGPT was made available to the public in November 2022, when they were still in production. I don’t know enough details to say whether that was enough time to get a script in for one episode. It’s possible they used something before ChatGPT, since similar tools have been around for several years, just not as advanced or accessible as ChatGPT.

      • blivet@artemis.camp
        4·
        1 year ago

        Its been okay, if a bit stale, but this was one was disheartening.

        Yeah, I feel the same way. The other episodes were all right, although a bit heavy on the memberberries, but this was just awful.

        I haven’t seen every episode of Futurama, but I’ve seen the vast majority, and while more than a few haven’t been my kind of humor, this is the first one I’ve seen that I thought actually sucked.