Some fans have accused the Stranger Things creators of using ChatGPT to help create the fifth and final season of the show.
The Netflix series came to an end with its two-hour finale episode premiering on New Year’s Eve, in which the evil Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) was defeated, and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) seemingly sacrificed herself to keep her friends safe. The episode’s coda saw Mike (Finn Wolfhard) sharing a theory that she had faked her death, and that he believed she was somewhere safe.
The climax was not universally loved by devotees to the show, with some left disappointed by the ambiguity of Eleven’s fate. Others subscribed to the now-debunked ‘Conformity Gate’ theory, which speculated that a surprise ninth episode was in the works to undo some of the revelations of the finale.
A documentary taking fans behind the scenes of the making of season five, titled One Last Adventure: The Making Of Stranger Things 5, has now been released onto Netflix, and one particular shot of the Duffer brothers working on the script of the show has led to some speculative sleuthing online.
A screenshot of one of their laptops has been spread on X, with some suggesting that it shows they had a ChatGPT tab open while discussing the plot. “Duffer Brothers really used chatgpt for this script? WTF,” wrote one person.
