No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?

The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav.

But this AI-created workplace comedy is so bad that even the greatest actors alive couldn’t stop it being unwatchable As you will no doubt be aware, one Anthropic researcher claimed there is a greater than one in 10 chance that AI will end all of humanity as we know it within the next decade.

However, now that I’ve given it some thought, I think this statistic might actually be a little conservative.

This is because I have just watched an episode of a sitcom created by AI, and if I ever have to do it again I’m genuinely going to die of boredom.

The show is No Big Deal, and it premiered on YouTube on Friday.

I was apparently only the 376th person to watch it.

This is by no means a recommendation that you become the 377th, more a warning to avoid it if your algorithm ever decides it hates you enough to suggest this.

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