AI and Irony
Oscar was Wilde ... but Laura Ingalls was Wilder
Yesterday, after using ChatGPT as a thesaurus, I ended my encounter with the large language model with an attempt to pull its digital leg.
By the way did I ever tell you the story of Epigraphikos, the contemporary of Sophocles who devoted his life to the composition of clichés? His work was discovered in the 1970s, which allowed the people of that era to benefit from such phrases lapidaires as ‘today is the first day of the rest of your life’.