I had never heard of Matt Brittin until now but I've already lost all respect for him.

CGI in Doctor Who is one thing, but it seems so misguided to use AI to generate an episode from whole cloth. I wouldn't want that even if they were just recreating the lost episodes with it, let alone making new ones :(

chuckles I'm Doctor Who is in danger

Exciting. It means the BBC can dispense with writers now. Quite soon the AI will be able to design and generate all SFX so no human input will be needed. After that, it's just a matter of replacing actors with AI modes and the BBC won't even need to film the show.

Of course, at that point the show will only be watched by bots who will write reviews and make Youtube vidoes to be watched by other bots. The future is glorious!

AI can be campy. I think that’s maybe one reason they feel this way. And it’s a reason this also feels like a threat to Doctor Who. Oof.

Or he generated one and is testing the waters over its reception.

I think the issue with this isn’t whether an ai can generate an episode, can it generate hundreds of coherent episodes that are actually entertaining?

Episode like whole production? Or script?

Even as someone who doesn't like generative AI, I'd be very curious to see it.

Even if you don't like AI, it could be framed within an arc. The AI generated episode is the first. The second is the Doctor convincing people it's not them. The third episode is revealing the aliens behind it (e.g. the Daleks) and going to where they are and deleting the source.

...Eh, I'm not sure I'd go for that.

...but I'm not sure it wouldn't be worse than the last few series...

To be honest, I watched it and it was gripping can't believe how consistent it was.

The scripts and direction where by a human with the AI doing the visuals.

It was a bit odd in a couple of places but other than that the story was really good.

AI visuals look good and the voices are also good. It does not surprise me someone can write some really good scenes. As far as I can tell it only ever works for zoomed in dialog spaced with pretty static imagery. And dynamic action or physics is a joke.