{"id":129359,"date":"2025-11-08T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:15:07","slug":"breaking-bad-creators-new-show-pluribus-was-emphatically-made-by-humans-not-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/129359\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217; creator\u2019s new show &#8216;Pluribus&#8217; was emphatically \u2018made by humans,\u2019 not AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show \u201cPluribus,\u201d you may have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thespaceshipper.com\/post\/3m54is34d5c2l\" target=\"_blank\">noticed an unusual disclaimer<\/a> in the credits: \u201cThis show was made by humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That terse message \u2014\u00a0 placed right below a note that \u201canimal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety\u201d \u2014 could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And just in case the disclaimer wasn\u2019t clear enough, creator Vince Gilligan (best known for \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d) was even more emphatic in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/pluribus-explained-vince-gilligan-rhea-seehorn-1236571666\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Variety feature story about the show<\/a>, declaring flatly, \u201cI hate AI.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to describe the technology as \u201cthe world\u2019s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine\u201d and compared AI-generated content to \u201ca cow chewing its cud \u2014 an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you, Silicon Valley!\u201d he added. \u201cYet again, you\u2019ve f\u2014ed up the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPluribus\u201d is the former \u201cX-Files\u201d writer\u2019s return to science fiction, and it reunites him with his \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d star Rhea Seehorn, who plays a romantasy author confronting an alien invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show \u201cPluribus,\u201d you may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,936,218,219,61,60,73456,80,73457],"class_list":{"0":"post-129359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-rhea-seehorn","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-vince-gilligan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}