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On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a generative AI

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a generative AI

Posted July 3, 2024 by Jon Dron

ChatGPT and I came up with this image summarizing my thoughts on generative AI for a presentation I am giving later today. I think it did a pretty good job. Thanks, ChatGPT, and thanks to Peter Steiner for the awesome original

A recreation of the famous New Yorker cartoon, "On the Internet no one knows you are a dog" showing a dog using a web browser - but it is a robot dog

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