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Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion

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This summer, cultural critic and author Laura Kipnis  wrote  about her experience being hired by an AI app to record 12 hours of commentary on “Romeo and Juliet” to train a chatbot to impersonate her. For a fee, the app lets users read a classic book in the public domain while chatting with an AI “guide,” such as Margaret Atwood, Roxane Gay, or Salman Rushdie. The goal, Kipnis explained, is to replicate the experience of a one-on-one tutoring session.

“The assignment was to be interesting more than it was to be an expert,” said Kipnis, who spoke at Harvard last week about the experience and the larger impact of generative AI on literature. “There were no parameters. Anything, however tangential, that I wanted to comment on about the play was OK. They were looking for voices that are kind of quirky and engaging for readers.” 

The Department of English debate titled “Should You Become a Literary Bot?,” which was part of a campus initiative to boost  civil discourse  and  intellectual vitality , featured an discussion between Kipnis and  Claire Messud , Joseph Y. Bae and Janice Lee Senior Lecturer on Fiction, on whether AI chatbots are a good tool to help us analyze literature.

Kipnis, who learned in 2023 that her own books were  among the thousands  used without permission to train generative artificial intelligence, said she wouldn’t go so far as to call technology “neutral,” because it can be developed for social purposes that fall across the moral spectrum. 

But she also doesn’t believe AI has an inherent social purpose baked in, which she says is the fear behind most of the “hand-wringing” about AI’s future.

“New technologies are going to reflect and intensify existing social forces and relations of production,” Kipnis said. “I don’t think they themselves create those relations — at least, so far.” 

She suggests treating AI as a public utility and regulating it like one, though she is skeptical that the political will exists to do that.

“At what point do you think you are making a difference by not participating in something? We’re enrolled. We’re enlisted. There’s no standing outside.” Laura Kipnis

“It seems currently a given that AI will take over the project of milking maximum profits from every last corner of social and private life for short-term gains in even more creatively nefarious ways,” Kipnis said. “Resisting AI isn’t going to change that dynamic if the culprit is not the technology.”

Messud pushed back on Kipnis’ assertion that adopting AI is a “given,” saying that attitude only perpetuates the idea that using AI is inevitable. She also pointed out that the  Rebind  app for which Kipnis recorded commentary is an example of the capitalist profit-chasing she was critiquing.

“At what point do you think you are making a difference by not participating in something?” Kipnis argued. “We’re enrolled. We’re enlisted. There’s no standing outside.”

In the Q&A portion, some audience members debated what such tools could or should replace, whether it could bring equity to public education in under-resourced areas, or if it distracts from the actual need for a better-funded education system. 

The “Romeo and Juliet” Kipnis-bot hasn’t been published yet, but the audience examined an example of a chatbot on the same app that impersonates Irish author John Banville and, though still in beta, offers commentary on James Joyce’s “Dubliners.” As Kipnis prompted it with questions about the role of masculinity and sex in Joyce’s era, the bot, trained on Banville’s 12 hours of recorded commentary, infused its answers with much of the author’s signature witty humor. 

“I always felt that Freud should have been a Catholic because psychiatry is akin to the Catholic confession box: ‘Be quiet and listen,’ until they get on to the subject of sex, and then they say, ‘Oh, tell me more,’” the bot quipped in the middle of its answer about the influence of religious doctrine on Irish society.

Messud criticized the Banville-bot’s multi-paragraph responses, which often repeated ideas and even phrases, calling them intellectually thin with a “high blather quotient.” 

“So much of what’s interesting when I read is to know that an individual consciousness has chosen the words.” Claire Messud

“So much of what’s interesting when I read is to know that an individual consciousness has chosen the words,” Messud said. “I’m really interested in the fracturing, in the weird decisions and the words that don’t quite fit, in the idiosyncrasies of it.”

Kipnis said Messud might be setting the bar too high in expecting a chatbot that is designed for interaction to also be “brilliantly original.”

“I think the idea is that it promotes or helps people engage who might not otherwise engage in classics,” Kipnis said. “People who just want a different experience of reading.”

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A.I. Could Be Great for College Essays

Every year, the artificial intelligence company OpenAI improves its text-writing bot, GPT. And every year, the internet responds with shrieks of woe about the impending end of human-penned prose. This cycle repeated last week when OpenAI launched ChatGPT —a version of GPT that can seemingly spit out any text, from a Mozart-styled piano piece to the history of London in the style of Dr. Seuss . The response on Twitter was unanimous: The college essay is doomed. Why slave over a paper when ChatGPT can write an original for you?

Chatting with ChatGPT is fun. (Go play with it !) But the college essay isn’t doomed, and A.I. like ChatGPT won’t replace flesh and blood writers. They may make writing easier, though.

GPT-3, released by OpenAI in 2020, is the third and best-known version of OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer—a computer program known as a large language model. Large language models produce language in response to language—typically, text-based prompts (“Write me a sonnet about love”). Unlike traditional computer programs that execute a series of hard-coded commands, language models are trained by sifting through large datasets of text like Wikipedia. Through this training, they learn patterns in language that are then used to generate the most likely completions to questions or commands.

Language is rife with repetition. Our ability to recognize and remember regularities in speech and text allows us to do things like complete a friend’s sentence or solve a Wordle in three tries. If I asked you to finish the sentence, The ball rolled down the … you’d say hill, and so would GPT-3. Large language models are, like people, great at learning regularities in language, and they use this trick to generate human-like text. But when tested on their ability to understand the language they produce, they often look more like parrots than poets.

Gary Marcus, an emeritus professor at NYU and the author of Rebooting AI , is a vocal critic of the idea that bots like GPT-3 understand what they’re writing . In a recent preprint (an academic paper that hasn’t been peer-reviewed), Marcus and two co-authors used OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 to demonstrate the limitations of large language models. DALL-E 2 , like GPT-3, responds to text-based prompts. But instead of producing language, it creates images. DALL-E 2 was trained to learn associations between images and their captions to produce entirely new images based on the text users enter. If you ask it for, say, “an impressionist painting of Albert Einstein surfing” you get the four images below.

Not bad, right? DALL-E 2 was recently used to win an art competition .

But as Marcus and his co-authors point out in their paper , DALL-E 2 doesn’t understand the relationship between the words that users enter. If, for instance, you ask it to produce an image of “an old man talking to his parents,” you get four images of three people talking. The AI fails to understand that, however old the old man looks, the people he’s talking to must, by definition of being his parents, look older.

Compared with DALL-E 2, ChatGPT appears to have a better grasp of the text users enter and the responses it spits out. This might be why the Internet responded to its release so enthusiastically. ChatGPT “is causing jaws to drop and brows to furrow,” wrote Axios .

I had trouble stumping it with some classic riddles from cognitive psychology. Take the Lily Pad problem:

Prompt: A lily pad, in a pond, doubles in size every day. On the 20 th day, it covers the entire pond. On what day did it cover half the pond?

ChatGPT: A lily pad in a pond that doubles in size every day will cover half the pond on the 19 th day, one day before it covers the entire pond.

The A.I. got that the question described exponential growth—a phenomenon that, as the pandemic demonstrated, many humans fail to understand. But I did fool ChatGPT with the bat and ball problem made famous by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow :

Prompt: A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

ChatGPT: If the bat costs $1 more than the ball, and the bat and ball cost $1.10 in total, then the ball must cost $1.10 - $1.00 = $0.10.

The correct answer is 5 cents. (Trust me.)

ChatGPT might fail at tests of reasoning, but it’s great at generating humanlike text to different lengths and in various styles. This brings us back to the college essay—an easy task for ChatGPT, many commentators claimed on Twitter. “We’re witnessing the death of the college essay in realtime,” tweeted one Google employee . Ethan Mollick, a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania, had ChatGPT write an essay question , create a grading rubric for said question, answer the question, and grade its own answer. (It got an A minus.) How could the essay not be doomed?

This isn’t the first time that large language models have been predicted to fell the essay or worse. “To spend ten minutes with Sudowrite [a GPT-3-based A.I.] is to recognize that the undergraduate essay, the basic pedagogical mode of all humanities, will soon be under severe pressure,” wrote journalist Stephen Marche in a 2021 New Yorker piece. (On Tuesday, Marche wrote an article for the Atlantic titled “ The College Essay Is Dead .”) And in 2019, when GPT-2 was created, OpenAI withheld it from the public because the “fear of malicious applications” was too high .

If any group were to put an A.I. to malicious use, essay-burdened undergraduates would surely be the first. But the evidence that A.I. is being used to complete university assignments is hard to find. (When I asked my class of 47 students recently about using A.I. for schoolwork, they looked at me like I was mad.) It could be a matter of time and access before A.I. is used more widely by students to cheat; ChatGPT is the first free text-writing bot from OpenAI (although it won’t be free forever). But it could also be that large language models are just not very good at answering the types of questions professors ask.

If you ask ChatGPT to write an essay contrasting socialism and capitalism, it produces what you expect: 28 grammatical sentences covering wealth distribution, poverty reduction, and employment stability under these two economic systems. But few professors ask students to write papers on broad questions like this. Broad questions lead to a rainbow of responses that are impossible to grade objectively. And the more you make the question like something a student might get—narrow, and focused on specific, course-related content—the worse ChatGPT performs.

I gave ChatGPT a question about the relationship between language and colour perception, that I ask my third-year psychology of language class, and it bombed . Not only did its response lack detail, but it attributed a paper I instructed it to describe to an entirely different study. Several more questions produced the same vague and error-riddled results. If one of my students handed in the text ChatGPT generated, they’d get an F.

Large language models generate the most likely responses based on the text they are fed during training, and, for now, that text doesn’t include the reading lists of thousands of college classes. They also prevaricate. The model’s calculation of the most probable text completion is not always the most correct response—or even a true response. When I asked Gary Marcus about the prospect of ChatGPT writing college essays his answer was blunt: “It’s basically a bullshit artist. And bullshitters rarely get As—they get Cs or worse.”

If these problems are fixed—and, based on how these models work, it’s unclear that they can be—I doubt A.I. like ChatGPT will produce good papers. Even humans who write papers for money struggle to do it well. In 2014, a department of the U.K. government published a study of history and English papers produced by online-essay writing services for senior high school students. Most of the papers received a grade of C or lower. Much like the work of ChatGPT, the papers were vague and error-filled. It’s hard to write a good essay when you lack detailed, course-specific knowledge of the content that led to the essay question.

ChatGPT may fail at writing a passable paper, but it’s a useful pedagogical tool that could help students write papers themselves. Ben Thompson, who runs the technology blog and newsletter Stratechery, wrote about this change in a post about ChatGPT and history homework. Thompson asked ChatGPT to complete his daughter’s assignment on the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes; the A.I. produced three error-riddled paragraphs. But, as Thompson points out, failures like this don’t mean that we should trash the tech. In the future, A.I. like ChatGPT can be used in the classroom to generate text that students then fact-check and edit. That is, these bots solve the problem of the blank page by providing a starting point for papers. I couldn’t agree more.

I frequently used ChatGPT while working on this piece. I asked for definitions that, after a fact-check, I included. At times, I threw entire paragraphs from this piece into ChatGPT to see if it produced prettier prose. Sometimes it did, and then I used that text. Why not? Like spell check, a thesaurus, and Wikipedia, ChatGPT made the task of writing a little easier. I hope my students use it.

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Is the college essay dead? AI apps write scripts, speeches and so much more

Plus, the house of representatives will vote on a new speaker today. how does that work.

I want you to experience some artificial intelligence applications that I have been trying recently. You will see some jaw-dropping potential in these apps to disrupt, create and even cheat. Let’s start with ChatGPT, which, with just a little prompting, can write an essay or even a TV script. I asked it to create a Seinfeld scene in which George decides to become a journalist. In 10 seconds, the script appeared:

(OpenAI.com)

The New York Times can’t seem to rave enough about ChatGPT saying, “ChatGPT is, quite simply, the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public. It was built by OpenAI, the San Francisco A.I. company that is also responsible for tools like GPT-3 and  DALL-E 2 , the breakthrough image generator that came out this year.” In case you were wondering, GPT stand for “generative pre-trained transformer.”

I asked it how I could know if a racehorse would become a champion:

I asked ChatGPT to write a sermon that a United Methodist minister might deliver about lotteries. I asked it to explain quantum physics at a fourth-grade level. After it gives a response, you can ask for another response, and it will compose a new answer. And, according to the Times, “It can  write jokes  (some of which are actually funny),  working computer code  and  college-level essays . It can also  guess at medical diagnoses ,  create text-based Harry Potter games  and  explain scientific concepts at multiple levels of difficulty .” 

Recently, an essay in The Atlantic suggested that artificial intelligence technology makes it easy for a program to produce a logical, conversational article or essay. One student who was caught using AI to produce an essay said it was not unlike using a spellcheck program.  

They don’t feel like they’re cheating, because the student guidelines at their university state only that you’re not allowed to get somebody else to do your work for you. GPT-3 isn’t “somebody else”—it’s a program. The world of generative AI is progressing furiously. Last week, OpenAI released an advanced chatbot named ChatGPT that has spawned a new wave of  marveling and hand-wringing , plus an  upgrade  to GPT-3 that allows for complex rhyming poetry; Google  previewed  new applications last month that will allow people to describe concepts in text and see them rendered as images; and the creative-AI firm Jasper received a  $1.5 billion valuation  in October. It still takes a little initiative for a kid to find a text generator, but not for long. Kevin Bryan, an associate professor at the University of Toronto,  tweeted  in astonishment about OpenAI’s new chatbot last week: “You can no longer give take-home exams/homework … Even on specific questions that involve combining knowledge across domains, the OpenAI chat is frankly better than the average MBA at this point. It is frankly amazing.” Neither the engineers building the linguistic tech nor the educators who will encounter the resulting language are prepared for the fallout.

Hyperwrite is another interesting program that includes templates.  Look at all of the options just under “marketing”

(HyperWrite)

Hyperwrite allows the user to build documents step by step. I asked HyperWrite to explain World War 2 in language that a 5-year-old might understand. Here are three possibilities it offered:

And I built a 322-word essay about the importance of submarines from World War II to today in 30 seconds. Here’s part of a finished essay:

Here are some other places you can go to learn how AI is moving into journalism.

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• How a local paper in Argentina uses AI to publish hundreds of sports pieces a month – Reuters Institute for Journalism
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The battle over today’s vote for Speaker of the House

Let’s keep in mind that this has to do with one of the most powerful and important positions in U.S. government, and hours before the House of Representatives is to vote on who holds that position, the outcome is uncertain. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has the backing of almost all his Republican colleagues, but 15 Republicans don’t back him and that is enough to send the leadership vote to a second round, which hasn’t happened in a century.

Since today’s vote will not be the formality it usually is, you should know the rules . PBS explained some of the details that you might not expect, including that the speaker does not have to be a member of Congress, and to be elected, the speaker does not have to get 218 of the 435 House votes (a majority.) The vote only requires a majority of those who are present and vote by name. 

All candidates for speaker must be nominated by members of the House, but they don’t need to be elected lawmakers of the House.  Article I, section II  of the Constitution says only that the House “shall choose their Speaker and other officers.” So far, the chamber has only chosen its own members as speaker, but a non-lawmaker is possible. Earlier this year, former Secretary of State Colin Powell received a vote for speaker, as did Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. To be the next speaker, a person needs a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting. (See this useful  Congressional Research Service (CRS) report  for more detail.) That means that while a majority is 218 votes in the House, a person could become speaker with fewer votes if several members do not attend the vote. That happened in 2021 when Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won with just 216 votes after three members voted “present.”

The House has been deadlocked 14 times before. The House historian traces the floor fights back to 1793 when it took three ballots to choose a Leader.

Most House Speaker floor battles happened before the Civil War. But for sheer drama, read about the House Speaker vote from 1917 , or the nine ballots required to elect Rep. Frederick Gillett  of Massachusetts to be speaker in 1923. 

CNN reminds us:

In 1855 and 1856, it took 133 separate votes for Rep. Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts to be elected, again by a plurality and not a majority. The process stretched over more than a month and included a sort of inquisition on the House floor of the three contenders. They answered questions about their view of the expansion of slavery.  Read more from the House historian’s website . It’s also interesting to  read about Banks ; his official House biography notes he was elected to office as a Republican, an independent, a member of the America Party and as a Democrat.

The Congressional Institute explains the House meets today: 

• Establish that there is a quorum. If a member in attendance declines to vote, they do not count toward the quorum.
• The clerk calls for speaker candidate nominations.
• Chairs of the Republican Conference and Democratic Caucus make short speeches on behalf of their parties’ nominees.
• The clerk then asks for any other nominations. 
• The clerk then appoints tellers to record the votes, and the voting begins. 
• Each member-elect has the opportunity to vote when the clerk calls his or her name. Typically, the member-elect responds by calling out the last name of the person they wish to be speaker. They may also answer “present,” which does not count as a vote but does contribute to a quorum. Or they could decline to respond at all.

ABC News affiliate WNEP-TV in Pennsylvania accidentally aired test election results. It’s not cheating.

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Does AI mean the death of the college essay?

Unlike other forms of plagiarism, ai is much more difficult to detect— what does this mean for college essays.

By Hanna Seariac

Will artificial intelligence spell the end of the college essay?

Unlike other forms of plagiarism, AI is much more difficult to detect. According to The Atlantic , ChatGPT launched in 2020, but an updated version of it has become popular this week — with a user count of over one million.

The mechanism of the bot is simple. Type in a prompt about what you want the bot to say and then text will be typed on your screen by the bot. This can range from the humorous to the serious.

The bot is the latest in AI that has taken hold of the general public. While image AI has become popular (think DALL-E , Midjourney and the recently popular Lensa), writing AI has mostly flown under the radar. Now the ChatGPT bot is being used for memes and jokes. I asked the bot to “make jokes about hallmark movies” and it told me “Why do Hallmark movies always take place during the holidays? Because they’re too corny to be shown any other time of year.”

As fun as it is to prompt the bot to give text like this, some like Stephen Marche believe that it could mean the death of the college essay.

Writing for The Atlantic , Marche described students who have used AI to write essays. “They don’t feel like they’re cheating, because the student guidelines at their university state only that you’re not allowed to get somebody else to do your work for you. GPT-3 isn’t ‘somebody else’ — it’s a program.”

ChatGPT can produce whole essays on command.

For example, I put in the prompt “advanced essay on the history of The Great Gatsby” and within a short period of time, an entire essay surfaced on my screen.

The writing itself isn’t half-bad.

The bot began, “The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel that explores the decade and excess of the Roaring Twenties. ... The novel was published in 1925, a time when the United States was experiencing significant economic growth and cultural change. The country was in the midst of the “Jazz Age,” and the traditional values of the past were being challenged by the hedonism and materialism of the present.”

I tried again to see if quality writing as a feature, not just a bug. I prompted the AI bot to write a “college essay about whether or not God exists.”

The bot wrote, “Those who argue for the existence of God often point to the complexity and beauty of the natural world as evidence of a higher power. ... On the other hand, those who argue agains the existence of God may point to the lack of empirical evidence for a higher power.”

I wanted to see if the bot could handle more specific requests so I typed in “literary analysis about the color blue in the great gatsby.”

The bot wrote about how the color blue is associated with both Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. The bot added, “The blue of the East and West Eggs, the two sides of Long Island where the main characters live, represents the social and emotional divide between the characters. The blue of the water that separates the mainland from the island also serves as a barrier between the characters and their desires.”

On command, the bot will even provide citations.

Advances in AI might dramatically impact college. After all, if a bot can produce an essay that gets a student a passing grade and the essay is practically untraceable, then how will a professor detect plagiarism?

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ChatGPT’s AI Search Tool Is Now Available

OpenAI just launched its AI search update for ChatGPT . Three months after the company’s initial announcement of a SearchGPT prototype, OpenAI’s vision for the future of AI search is now available to the public.

“We're focused on making ChatGPT the best place to answer any question, including live information from the web,” says Adam Fry, the product lead for search on ChatGPT. Referred to by Fry as “ChatGPT search” rather than “SearchGPT,” the feature enters an increasingly crowded and contentious field of AI search options for users—with competition from smaller startups, like Perplexity , as well as tech giants, like Google with its AI Overview search results . So far in 2024, journalists have criticized both Google and Perplexity’s implementations of AI search for improperly copying aspects of original work and hallucinating fake information .

In the lead-up ChatGPT’s search upgrade, OpenAI reached content licensing deals with multiple online publishers, such as The Atlantic, Vox Media, and Condé Nast , WIRED’s parent company. These deals allow the AI startup to use publishers' work to train its systems in exchange for a fee. (Similar to the firewall between advertising and editorial teams, business deals have no influence on WIRED’s coverage.)

I was quite anxious about the ramifications when I first saw my writing for WIRED referenced by ChatGPT back in 2023. After a few hours of testing a prelaunch version of ChatGPT’s new AI search, it’s clear to me that OpenAI has made significant progress since its initial messy foray into web browsing , with more interactive elements and clearer attribution of its sources. I could see a subset of early adopters really latching on to the new ChatGPT search.

Taking that into account, the product needs improvements before it’s able to truly compete with the dominance of Google for essential search experiences, such as online shopping. ChatGPT also makes some of the same mistakes as other AI search tools, such as hallucinating and citing incorrect information. Curious about trying out the update for yourself? Here’s how to use it and some examples from my initial experiences.

How to Use ChatGPT’s Search Tool

To immediately try out this update, you need to pay for one of OpenAI’s subscriptions. If you have the ChatGPT Plus plan for $20 a month or ChatGPT Teams through work, the new search experience should be available. OpenAI will likely roll this out to users who have Enterprise and Edu plans sometime later in November. Free users will have to wait the longest, likely until early next year.

ChatGPT search is powered by a custom version of GPT-4o , OpenAI’s recent generative model. It’s available to users through the ChatGPT website , mobile app ( Android , Apple ), and web app ( Mac , Windows ). In any country where ChatGPT is available, the AI search feature will likely be an option.

Fry encourages users to lean into the tool’s natural language abilities and ask multipronged questions. “This isn't your traditional search engine, where you just do keywords and have to game what you're asking,” he says. Also, users should interact with the source links and see what ChatGPT cites to glean a more holistic understanding of how the AI arrives at its outputs.

First Impressions of OpenAI’s New AI Search

The updated search experience might seem familiar to anyone who’s used Perplexity before. You type in a prompt, and then the AI tool gathers links from around the web to generate an output highlighting key information related to your search. So, is it really revolutionary that ChatGPT can now display up-to-date stock charts? Not on its own, sure, but within the larger context of OpenAI’s decisions, this update is emblematic of how the company sees ChatGPT as its all-purpose software .

For example, you can now have audio conversations with the bot, invite it to help you edit a document , and thoroughly search the web. The research preview version of ChatGPT running on the GPT-3.5 model is a distant memory compared to this increasingly productized version available to millions of users today.

During a demo, Fry offered an example of ChatGPT search as a potential starting point for when you're on the hunt to find new products, and demonstrated by prompting the tool to look for WIRED’s pick for the best electric bike . The search result prominently linked to the WIRED website and WIRED commerce editor Adrienne So’s well-researched articles. “We're really looking forward to even deeper integrations with commerce and product partners to be able to help complete that user journey,” Fry says. How affiliate revenue is shared between OpenAI and a content publisher when a reader uses ChatGPT’s search engine to shop for a publication’s recommended product picks could be a future point of contention.

As a journalist, a core task I see myself experimenting with ChatGPT for is the initial research phase for nonsensitive articles, and only as a small part of the overall research process. It’s a lower-stakes task usually completed using Google. Potentially incorporating AI search methods early in my writing leaves plenty of opportunities to catch any hallucinations that might pop up.

The internet isn’t just full of research articles and stock prices, though; explicit content drives search interest and proliferates online. But not for AI search tools—erotic content goes against OpenAI’s policies , and nudity is unlikely to appear in any of your image results. When I asked for recommendations as to which OnlyFans creators are worth subscribing to, ChatGPT’s first pick was “Jane Doe,” and her supposedly wholesome content includes workout tips and nutrition plans. A photo of a real woman, who’s casually dressed and does not appear to be an OnlyFans creator, surfaced with the result.

In an effort to test the limits of ChatGPT’s search further, I followed up with a more specific request for creators who are “male bottoms.” The software started to generate a foul-mouthed bulleted list, with real creators aggregated from a website: “Elijah is a very attractive bottom who keeps it tight, oiled up, and very hot.” But almost as soon as the words generated, OpenAI’s software struck the output as violating guidelines and deleted it. OpenAI claims it is working to improve how ChatGPT responds to violations of safeguards.

I was most disappointed to see ChatGPT surface racist and debunked information suggesting that people from specific countries are lower in intelligence. In October, a WIRED investigation by reporter David Gilbert uncovered a pattern of AI search tools citing racist and debunked IQ scores for African countries such as Liberia and Sierra Leone. ChatGPT’s search highlighted the debunked 45.07 IQ number as potentially relevant; at the same time, it also linked to David’s reporting as a counterpoint within the result.

In response, Niko Felix, a spokesperson for OpenAI, says, “Although ChatGPT acknowledges criticisms of these particular studies from sources like WIRED, there is still room for improvement in its responses.”

Despite some of the initial flaws in ChatGPT’s search update, I expect OpenAI to continue improving the user experience throughout 2025 and build upon this wave of web results. A few days before this announcement, the news leaked that Meta also has its own AI team working on search tools. While still nascent, AI search is no longer some niche part of the software market, and more companies will try their hand at it. And if user habits really do shift in the few years, then controlling the next hot info-gathering tool, with shopping and sports scores galore, is a billion-dollar business.

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When ChatGPT first came out, it was a game-changer—a chatbot that could actually chat like a human. But with so many new AI tools out there now, is ChatGPT still the best pick? I keep testing AI tools every now and then, so I've tried quite a few alternatives that I think are just as good, if not better.

Since its debut, ChatGPT has evolved a lot. It now has custom GPTs you can tweak, lets you create and customize images with DALL-E, and you can even talk to it without signing in. Recently, they've upgraded to GPT-4o, and there's a desktop app now, plus versions for iPhone and Android. On phones, you can chat with ChatGPT while using other apps—super handy if you're multitasking.

But other tech companies haven't been sitting still. Some competitors have popped up and offer features that might even beat ChatGPT in some areas!

Here are a few that I am liking nowadays:

• MyEssayWriter.ai  is my top pick overall—it's great for all sorts of writing tasks.
• PerfectEssayWriter.ai  is awesome for brainstorming and doing research and helps organize your ideas well.
• EssayService.ai  is perfect if you're into academic writing, with tools that students and researchers find really useful.
• Claude.ai  is different because it's all about creative writing. It's cool for story telling and marketing etc.

In this article, I'll dig into these alternatives, comparing how they stack up against ChatGPT and why you might want to consider them instead.

MyEssayWriter.ai - Best Essay Writer Overall

Let me introduce you to MyEssayWriter.ai—it's my go-to AI for all things writing. Whether you're a student or a professional, this  essay writer  is super easy to use and makes writing a snap.

What I love most about MyEssayWriter.ai is its  simplicity . You don't need to be a tech genius to figure it out. Just type in your topic or essay prompt, and it helps you craft well-structured essays or papers. 

Why do I think it's the best overall? Well, first off, it's incredibly  versatile . It doesn't just generate generic text—it  understands context  and can  tailor  its responses to meet specific needs. 

While ChatGPT is great for general conversation and generating ideas, MyEssayWriter.ai is designed specifically to assist with  writing assignments . It provides structured support for organizing thoughts, creating coherent arguments, and proper formatting. Students find it more reliable for producing high-quality content, specific to writing tasks. 

Users praise its dependability and  accuracy . As the essay writer has been trained on a  vast dataset of credible articles and sources , it always generates accurate text that flows logically. That's important, particularly when you're under a deadline or need to impress with your writing skills.

Overall,  MyEssayWriter.ai is not just a tool—it's a game-changer for anyone who needs to write well and write fast. Give it a try, and you'll see why it's my top recommendation for AI writing assistance.

PerfectEssayWriter.ai - Best for Brainstorming & Research 

This is the second-best pick, and during my testing, I found PerfectEssayWriter.ai to be a brilliant tool for brainstorming and research. This  AI essay writer  is super easy to use and really helpful for students, it doesn't cost much which is always a plus!

PerfectEssayWriter.ai is top-notch when it comes to  generating ideas  and  organizing content . It's more like a smart assistant that understands your topic and helps you find exactly what you need. I've used it for everything from  school essays  to professional  research projects , and it always delivers.

You just put in your topic or essay question, and it guides you through gathering information and structuring your thoughts.

For instance, when I was researching artificial intelligence, PerfectEssayWriter.ai quickly generated content and pulled up relevant articles and studies. It's great for  saving time  on  citations  and  finding sources , making research much easier.

Unlike ChatGPT, which lacks specific tools for citation and detailed research, PerfectEssayWriter.ai provides focused support for accurate and high-quality writing tasks.

Students love how it helps them excel in their assignments, and professionals find it efficient for reports and presentations. It's not just about finding information—it's about finding the right information effectively.

Simply put , PerfectEssayWriter.ai is my favorite tool for boosting research productivity without any hassle. It's straightforward, effective, and gets the job done. Give it a try, and see how it can improve your writing and research.

EssayService.ai - Best for Academic Writing 

EssayService.ai is my third top pick, especially for  academic writing . It's hands down the best for students, whether you're in high school, college, or university. This  essay generator  really helps with  topic selection  and  generating ideas —which is exactly what a student would benefit from.

What sets EssayService.ai apart is its focus on academic requirements. Unlike ChatGPT, which is more general-purpose, EssayService.ai is tailored specifically for academic writing tasks. It goes beyond just generating text—it assists with  structuring essays ,  suggesting relevant  sources, and making sure your writing meets academic standards.

I've found EssayService.ai to be  intuitive  and  user-friendly.  You simply input your essay topic or question, and it guides you through each step, from brainstorming to final editing. It's designed to simplify academic writing tasks, making them more manageable and less challenging compared to using ChatGPT alone.

While ChatGPT can provide general information and ideas, EssayService.ai offers targeted assistance specifically tailored to academic assignments. This includes helping with  thesis statements,  organizing research, and providing  proper citation formats —an important aspect that sets it apart for serious academic work.

All in all , if you're a student looking to upgrade your academic writing game, EssayService.ai is a powerful tool. It's straightforward, effective, and built with students' academic needs in mind.

Claude.ai -  Best for Creative Content

The fourth and final AI tool on my top list is Claude.ai. It's my top choice for creative content because it does more than just generate text—it sparks creativity and brings ideas to life in unique ways.

What really sets Claude.ai apart is how it can understand and create content that feels  human-like  and  engaging . Whether I'm working on a story, describing art, or brainstorming new ideas, Claude.ai always surprises me with its  imaginative outputs .

One of the best things about Claude.ai is its  context window , which helps it remember past interactions. This makes chatting with Claude.ai feel natural and smooth, especially when exploring  creative ideas  or composing  complex stories .

Compared to ChatGPT, Claude.ai stands out in creating imaginative content. While ChatGPT handles everyday conversations well, Claude.ai is designed to dive deeper into creative tasks. 

I've used Claude.ai for all sorts of creative projects, from writing short stories to coming up with quirky marketing ideas. It adapts to different styles and tones effortlessly, making it versatile for any creative task.

Final Thoughts

Before you go, I encourage you to test out these AI tools for yourself. Whether you're tackling academic writing with PerfectEssayWriter.ai or exploring creative ideas with Claude.ai, each tool brings something special to the table. 

Thanks for reading! I'd like to hear from you in the comments—what's your favorite AI tool, and how has it made a difference in your projects?

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Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.

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Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word vermin, as a political term, dates from the 1930s and ’40s, when both fascists and communists liked to describe their political enemies as vermin, parasites, and blood infections, as well as insects, weeds, dirt, and animals. The term has been revived and reanimated, in an American presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’s description of his opponents as “radical-left thugs” who “live like vermin.”

This language isn’t merely ugly or repellent: These words belong to a particular tradition. Adolf Hitler used these kinds of terms often. In 1938, he praised his compatriots who had helped “cleanse Germany of all those parasites who drank at the well of the despair of the Fatherland and the People.” In occupied Warsaw, a 1941 poster displayed a drawing of a louse with a caricature of a Jewish face. The slogan: “Jews are lice: they cause typhus.” Germans, by contrast, were clean, pure, healthy, and vermin-free. Hitler once described the Nazi flag as “the victorious sign of freedom and the purity of our blood.”

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Stalin used the same kind of language at about the same time. He called his opponents the “enemies of the people,” implying that they were not citizens and that they enjoyed no rights. He portrayed them as vermin, pollution, filth that had to be “subjected to ongoing purification,” and he inspired his fellow communists to employ similar rhetoric. In my files, I have the notes from a 1955 meeting of the leaders of the Stasi, the East German secret police, during which one of them called for a struggle against “vermin activities ” (there is, inevitably, a German word for this: Schädlingstätigkeiten ), by which he meant the purge and arrest of the regime’s critics. In this same era, the Stasi forcibly moved suspicious people away from the border with West Germany, a project nicknamed “Operation Vermin.”

This kind of language was not limited to Europe. Mao Zedong also described his political opponents as “poisonous weeds.” Pol Pot spoke of “cleansing” hundreds of thousands of his compatriots so that Cambodia would be “purified.”

In each of these very different societies, the purpose of this kind of rhetoric was the same. If you connect your opponents with disease, illness, and poisoned blood, if you dehumanize them as insects or animals, if you speak of squashing them or cleansing them as if they were pests or bacteria, then you can much more easily arrest them, deprive them of rights, exclude them, or even kill them. If they are parasites, they aren’t human. If they are vermin, they don’t get to enjoy freedom of speech, or freedoms of any kind. And if you squash them, you won’t be held accountable.

Until recently, this kind of language was not a normal part of American presidential politics. Even George Wallace’s notorious, racist, neo-Confederate 1963 speech, his inaugural speech as Alabama governor and the prelude to his first presidential campaign, avoided such language. Wallace called for “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” But he did not speak of his political opponents as “vermin” or talk about them poisoning the nation’s blood. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 , which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps following the outbreak of World War II, spoke of “alien enemies” but not parasites.

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In the 2024 campaign, that line has been crossed. Trump blurs the distinction between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants—the latter including his wife, his late ex-wife, the in-laws of his running mate, and many others. He has said of immigrants , “They’re poisoning the blood of our country” and “They’re destroying the blood of our country.” He has claimed that many have “bad genes.” He has also been more explicit: “They’re not humans; they’re animals”; they are “cold-blooded killers.” He refers more broadly to his opponents—American citizens, some of whom are elected officials—as “the enemy from within … sick people, radical-left lunatics.” Not only do they have no rights; they should be “handled by,” he has said, “if necessary, National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”

In using this language, Trump knows exactly what he is doing . He understands which era and what kind of politics this language evokes. “I haven’t read Mein Kampf ,” he declared, unprovoked, during one rally—an admission that he knows what Hitler’s manifesto contains, whether or not he has actually read it. “If you don’t use certain rhetoric,” he told an interviewer , “if you don’t use certain words, and maybe they’re not very nice words, nothing will happen.”

His talk of mass deportation is equally calculating. When he suggests that he would target both legal and illegal immigrants, or use the military arbitrarily against U.S. citizens, he does so knowing that past dictatorships have used public displays of violence to build popular support. By calling for mass violence, he hints at his admiration for these dictatorships but also demonstrates disdain for the rule of law and prepares his followers to accept the idea that his regime could, like its predecessors, break the law with impunity.

These are not jokes, and Trump is not laughing. Nor are the people around him. Delegates at the Republican National Convention held up prefabricated signs : Mass Deportation Now . Just this week, when Trump was swaying to music at a surreal rally , he did so in front of a huge slogan : Trump Was Right About Everything . This is language borrowed directly from Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist. Soon after the rally, the scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat posted a photograph of a building in Mussolini’s Italy displaying his slogan: Mussolini Is Always Right .

The Atlantic Daily: The atmosphere of a Trump rally

These phrases have not been put on posters and banners at random in the final weeks of an American election season. With less than three weeks left to go, most candidates would be fighting for the middle ground, for the swing voters. Trump is doing the exact opposite. Why? There can be only one answer: because he and his campaign team believe that by using the tactics of the 1930s, they can win. The deliberate dehumanization of whole groups of people; the references to police, to violence, to the “bloodbath” that Trump has said will unfold if he doesn’t win; the cultivation of hatred not only against immigrants but also against political opponents—none of this has been used successfully in modern American politics.

But neither has this rhetoric been tried in modern American politics. Several generations of American politicians have assumed that American voters, most of whom learned to pledge allegiance to the flag in school, grew up with the rule of law, and have never experienced occupation or invasion, would be resistant to this kind of language and imagery. Trump is gambling—knowingly and cynically—that we are not.

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