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One year in and ChatGPT already has us doing its bidding
For me, the journey began when I asked ChatGPT who I was.
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Different forms of artificial intelligence have been in use for a long time, but ChatGPT’s unveiling towards the end of 2022 was what brought AI into our public consciousness.
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Vauhini Vara
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One of the first things I asked ChatGPT about, early in 2023, was myself: “What can you tell me about the writer Vauhini Vara?”
It told me I’m a journalist (true, though I’m also a fiction writer), that I was born in California (false) and that I’d won a Gerald Loeb Award and a National Magazine Award (false, false).

