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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology

Making an April fool of AI and Tory leaders

Latex model of Boris Johnson created for Spitting Image
‘A shock of blond hair standing on end…’ Latex model of Boris Johnson created for Spitting Image. Photograph: Mark Harrison/Avalon/Britbox/AFP/Getty

“One AI image depicted a person holding a handbag, smoking a cigar, with a shock of blond hair standing on end” (Boris Thatchill? Tories turn to AI to find their perfect leader, print edition, 1 April). Sounds like an anti-Marx brother.
Toby Wood
Peterborough

• The Tory composite leader AI plan made for a good April Fools’ Day spoof, but it is not a new idea. In the 1990s, Norman Tebbit declared that the dream ticket would be his brain in Michael Heseltine’s body.
John Saxbee
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire

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