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tags: [1984, george-orwell, ai, gen-ai]
title: >- George Orwell predicts generative AI
source: Nineteen Eighty-Four
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There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.
[...]
It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.
— Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
layout: quote
tags: [1984, george-orwell, ai, gen-ai]
title: >- George Orwell predicts generative AI
source: Nineteen Eighty-Four
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date:
— Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)