ChatGPT rewrites Game of Thrones ending: “That is what entertainment will look like”

Have you heard of ChatGPT? It’s blown up over the past few months. It’s an AI chatbot created by Open AI that can produce readable, even creative prose based on simple prompts. Ask it to write an essay about the American Revolution and it’s got you covered. Ask it for lasagna recipes and it’ll give you a bunch of good ones. Ask it to rewrite the final season of Game of Thrones and it’ll oblige.

That’s actually one of the use cases that Open AI presdient Greg Brockman outlined during a panel at the SXSW Festival. He sees ChatGPT as a group of “assistants” who aren’t perfect but are “eager and never sleep” and who could do the “drudge work” for writing and coding, but who could also provide a more “interactive” entertainment experience.

"That is what entertainment will look like. Maybe people are still upset about the last season of Game of Thrones. Imagine if you could ask your A.I. to make a new ending that goes a different way and maybe even put yourself in there as a main character or something."

ChatGPT rewrites the final episode of Game of Thrones

I actually tried to get ChatGPT to rewrite the final episode of Game of Thrones for this article, but I’m caught in some kind of loop where it’s asking me to reset my password but then whenever I do it asks me to reset it again. So the technology is advanced, but some old-school problems persist.

Happily, plenty of people have already asked it to do this. Take a look at one such attempt below:

"I asked ChatGPT to remake the season 8 finale from gameofthrones"

Jon and Sansa rule as king and queen, huh? Who knew ChatGPT was a Jonsa shipper?

Will AI roll over creativity and flatten humanity into a grey odorless paste?

Look, I write for a living, so the prospect of a robot that can do my job faster and better than me is slightly alarming. We don’t yet know whether AI will replace writers or just augment them. As The Hollywood Reporter found, organizations like the Writers Guild of America West are “monitoring the development of ChatGPT and similar technologies in the event they require additional protections for writers,” and screenwriters have said they could see ChatGPT as a tool to aid them, rather than replacing them.

Brockman said that ChatGPT could take over jobs where users “didn’t want human judgment there in the first place,” like those involving content moderation, which is a weird example because our comment bot makes bizarre decisions all the time. “Every aspect of life is going to be sort of amplified by this technology, and I’m sure there are some aspects or people or companies that will say, ‘I don’t want that,’ and that’s okay,” Brockman said. “I think it’s really going to be a tool, just like the cell phone in your pocket, that is going to be available when it makes sense.”

So we’ll see if ChatGPT will be helpful or if I’ll go to nursing school or something.

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