They let ChatGPT write an episode of Futurama, they animated and voiced it with effort, to prove that writers cannot be replaced by AI. They can now always point at this episode's low ratings and tell executives "that's why you need us".

And they immediately contrasted that by doing the Block-Segment in E10 - to show that a good story, even with minimal animation, can still succeed and be more entertaining than AI.

That's also why E10 is all about artificial intelligence and being simulated, that's also why E1 (!) had that bit showing a writer's room with dead, overworked people and bender as an AI replacing them, but producing crap. And guess which episode was reference in E10 again? Yep, exactly that episode 1.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

possible but they would have to know the issues with chat gpt were coming up months before they really stared. That impossible