We Forced a Bot to Write This Show

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BBC

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We forced Artificial Intelligence to digest massive amounts of human media and then write its own versions. Everything from The One Show, Game of Thrones, Friends, Songs of Praise and more via movies, fables, adverts, Shakespeare, poetry and, er, gardening tips (and much much more) are all forever ruined by technology.

We take the scripts, push them word-for-word into the mouths of actors, and the result is absurdly, joyously - and then absurdly again - hilarious.

This is the comedy that conclusively proves that AI is an absolute idiot.

Based on materials by Keaton Patti.

Forcing A Bot To Write This Show are: Jon Holmes Sarah Dempster Gareth Ceredig

Performed by: Isy Suttie James Lance Lauren Douglin Esmonde Cole and Craig Parkinson as The Narrator Olivia Williams as The Stoyteller

Original Music by Jake Yapp. Lyrics: Holmes / Ceredig / Patti

Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes

Technical Wizardry: Tony Churnside Production Co-ordinator: Laura Grimshaw

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:11.3	this is a game of trust you but it's a game of trust.
0:12.7	You have to get people to trust you very quickly.
0:16.2	I'm Ed Gamble.
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0:23.4	No!
0:24.4	I would have never expected him at all.
0:26.3	The traitors uncloaked.
0:28.1	Listen only on BBC Sounds.
0:32.3	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	We forced a bot to write this show.
0:40.0	We forced a bot to write a true crime podcast.
0:44.0	Day, interior of ears.
0:46.0	The podcast host uses their voice to remind people that they can be murdered.
0:51.0	On May 3rd, 1983 1983 a woman went missing everywhere including from
0:57.0	her own life. It's a tale of stabs, sex, and a blue apron.
1:03.0	New music, this time a bit more soft is played in, to emphasize.
1:08.0	The only evidence was hard mystery.
1:12.0	Irish Chef of Police for the case.
1:14.0	It was a brief case, which I have here.
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