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Black Mirror creator unafraid of AI because it’s “boring”::Charlie Brooker doesn’t think AI is taking his job any time soon because it only produces trash

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really, really could not get behind the premise that the PM of the UK would fuck a pig to save a princess.

In the real world, it would have been "we do not make deals with terrorists" and that would be that, ratings be damned. Like holy shit, did he start with a completely unrealistic premise.

[–] dimeslime@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: complete fabrication be here.

The "do horrible thing to save someone" story, yeah, maybe.

But the pig thing had been going around for years about the then/former prime minister. Some kind of hazing at eton or wherever those posh folks go. The episode was just a reference to that.

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The episode is from 2011, Piggate was in 2015.

[–] dimeslime@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Ha. I guess I rewrote my own memory.