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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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JR Hennessy

Even if they’re not actually intelligent, AIs may shift the nature of human expression itself

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AI-generated suggestions for a main image for a Guardian comment piece. Photograph: Dall-e mini

Did you hear that Donald Trump recently attacked the popular Netflix show Stranger Things at a rally? “Have you seen that garbage on Netflix?” Trump asked the crowd in Pennsylvania. “It’s a disgrace. I mean, really, really bad. It’s a complete and total ripoff of my life story. I was the one who first discovered the power of the Upside Down. But instead of using it to do evil, I used it to make America great again.”

OK, full disclosure: that did not happen. The quote was generated by GPT-3, an autoregressive language model developed by San Francisco artificial intelligence outfit OpenAI which can produce convincing, humanlike text in response to prompts.

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