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Season 11 Episode 9 - The Prince and the Product [Discussion and Spoilers] (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/futurama@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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.

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