Editor’s Note: The co-creator & showrunner of Mrs. Davis, Tara Hernandez has put artificial intelligence at the core of her creativity in the just completed Peacock limited series.
Today, in a guest column on the Writers Guild of American strike, the Young Sheldon writers’ room alumna takes a different POV on AI and the notion of the individual in a greater collective Until three weeks ago, when WGA leadership called this strike and asked membership to sever all ties with the studios, effectively putting a stop to any promotional activities — I had spent the past several months on a press tour for a series I co-created in which an all-powerful artificial intelligence is the title character.
So, I opted to open this piece the way many journalists began our interviews – by allowing ChatGPT to do my job for me. When fed the prompt: Hey ChatGPT, how should I, Tara Hernandez, open this Deadline piece about my feelings on the strike? — the chatbot spat out of the following response: Beep-boop.
Beep-boop. Backspace. Backspace. Backspace. Fart. Okay, fine — you caught me. It’s not true. I made it up. I did not consult ChatGPT before writing this.
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