In this video essay, author and Youtuber Toby Hendy (AKA Tibees) discusses The Great Automatic Grammatizator, an eerily prophetic 1950s sci-fi story by Roald Dahl, best known today for children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG. The story is about a text-generating machine and its effects on society, and some of the dialogue is shockingly similar to the arguments we're having about LLMs today. (SLYT.)
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