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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

The Investigation of Lucy Letby on Netflix: a morally egregious use of AI slop

Sometimes, a show comes across that is so blatantly cynical – so keen to transform the misfortune of others into sweet views for the algorithm – that the temptation arises to drop your phone into the void and never touch a computer again.

The Investigation of Lucy Letby is one such abomination. This should not exist. It is simply picking over long-clean bones for bad reasons: poking a terrible bruise for the pleasure of onlookers.

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