Annie Murphy's 'Black Mirror' episode is about the future of AI. It 'terrifies' her.
Warning: This story contains spoilers for the"Black Mirror" episode"Joan Is Awful."The long-running show, which recently dropped its sixth season on Netflix, began in 2011 on the BBC. Each episode is a standalone story that looks at how a futuristic piece of technology might change people's lives.
Murphy's own episode, which explores the intersection of AI and entertainment, comes out months after ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms began to open up possibility about that very thing. “They sent me the script and my jaw just kind of kept dropping and dropping and dropping. Then we got to the end and it basically unhinged from my skull and fell all the way on to the floor,” she says.In"Joan is Awful," the first episode of the series, Murphy stars as Joan, a woman who discovers that a Netflix-esque streaming service, Streamberry, has adapted her daily life — secrets and all — into a show starring Salma Hayek .
The Streamberry show deliberately focuses on Joan's bad side, hence the title. “I think it’s so much easier to try to find the salacious, dirty details in others than to turn inward because we’re full of anxieties of ourselves,” Murphy says.Horrified by the show, the two characters team up to take down the quantum computer.“What I didn’t expect from her was how funny she was and how willing to make fun of herself she was and what a goof she is. We kept making each other cackle.
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