The series’ very first sketch-a beautifully simple piece of comedy in which Robinson tries to pull a cafe door instead of push, then to avoid embarrassment, continues pulling (“I was here yesterday, it actually goes both ways”) until the door is both visibly and audibly broken-was a sort of thesis statement for the rest of the series. Which isn’t to say that I Think You Should Leave has no formula. Could an algorithm come up with something as high-concept as TC Tuggers-a long-winded bit of product placement for t-shirts with round knobs on the front (“so you can just pull it out when it gets trapped in your belly”) that’s embedded within a CW-style high school drama? Or “Brian’s Hat,” in which a phone transcript read aloud during an insider trading trial exposes the defendants’ private ridicule of a co-worker’s fedora? Could a computer have possibly written the show’s most famous sketch, so memed that it became online shorthand for powerful people deflecting responsibility in messes they helped create? As McBride would say, I dare it. The funniest show on TV, Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave, has a style and sense of humor that feels impossible to replicate with technology, as it’s so indebted to the strange, singular imagination of its creator, Tim Robinson. No movies or series of any real merit are generated by AI. I think he means John Henry, but his point stands. I’ll be fuckin’ Casey Jones, I’ll go head to head with this goddamn thing.” “But if you’re making something that’s your point of view, like… I dare it, I challenge it. “If you’re derivative, then yeah, you might be in for trouble,” Danny McBride said when asked about Chat GPT’s threat to writers. But to anyone with even a passing familiarity with what it takes to write a movie or a TV show-to take an original thought and put it onscreen-the notion that AI might replace writers, or take any significant part in the creative process, seems absurd. The articles devoted to AI’s continued creative encroachment are predictably alarmist to paraphrase Mencken, no newspaper ever lost money underestimating the American public’s fear of robots. As the writer’s strike enters its fifth week, a topic of discussion gaining recent traction is artificial intelligence’s role in future writer’s rooms.
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