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Norman Lear passed away at the age of 101 on December 5th. He was a legendary TV producer who wrote, created, developed, and produced over 100 shows and was recognized with many awards. With his passing, CBS Studios has announced that it has partnered with OpenAI to train a large language model chatbot based on Norman Lear's work. The ultimate goal is to create new TV shows based on Norman Lear's style and incorporate some many of the political and social themes into those shows, just as Mr. Lear did. The chatbot is called “Lear-bot”, and it is already at work creating new shows. While CBS has not green-lit any of them yet, the first few show pilots have shown promise according to CBS Studios. “All in the Family and Sons” is a sitcom about a working-class family that owns a junkyard empire with the father as a Trump-loving patriarch with his two idiot sons and his liberal lesbian daughter. “The Hendersons” features the Henderson family, a Latino family that changed their name to side-step racism as they climb their way to the top of the cut-throat New York City dry-cleaning business. “Marvin” includes a Bea Arthur-looking, AI-generated character as an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal transvestite living in Orlando, Florida and working at a local diner. The Writers Guild of America has filed complaints with the studio showing the Lear-bot as a prime example of how artificial intelligence will limit original narratives and explorative story lines. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers want to extend Lear-bot and promote more chatbots to lead productions. Lear-bot is already taking meetings with Disney Branded Television to create adolescent television.