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Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

Sharon Adarlo

created: Jan. 14, 2026, 5:02 p.m. | updated: Jan. 24, 2026, 2:20 p.m.

“WTF man, now we know why season 5 sucked,” wrote one upset fan of the show on X-formerly-Twitter in response. Martina Radwan, director of the documentary “One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5,” told The Hollywood Reporter in a new interview that she didn’t witness anybody using ChatGPT in the tv show writer’s room. I witnessed conversation.”Of course, a person making a hagiographic documentary about the production of the show for Netflix probably isn’t the world’s most neutral source. Big tech has already eaten journalism’s lunch — and perhaps Hollywood is next on the menu. More on entertainment: OpenAI Says It’s Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI

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