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AI used to be weird — now “sounds like ChatGPT” is a mainstream insult deriding extremely boring people.
The premise (concocted by comedian Keaton Patti) was that you could train an artificial intelligence model on vast quantities of Saw films, Hallmark specials, or Olive Garden commercials and get back a bizarre funhouse-mirror version with lines like “lasagna wings with extra Italy” or “her mouth is full of secret soup.” The scripts almost certainly weren’tactually written by a bot, but the joke conveyed a common cultural understanding: AI was weird. Nyce charted the rise of “AI” as a term of derision — referring to material that was “dull or uninspired, riddled with clichés and recycled ideas.” The insult would reach new heights at the start of the Republican primary cycle in August, when former New Jersey governor Chris Christie dissed rival Vivek Ramaswamy as “a guy who sounds like ChatGPT.” When director Oscar Sharp and researcher Ross Goodwin created the 2016 AI-written short film Sunspring, for instance, the bot they trained to make it couldn’t even “learn” the patterns behind proper names — resulting in characters dubbed H, H2, and C. Its dialogue is technically correct but almost Borgesian in its oddity.
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