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ChatGPT bot channels history to pen State of Union speech

FILE- The Three Stooges, Joe DeRita, as "Curly," left, Moe Howard, center, and Larry Fine, act in a scene from their movie, "Have Rocket, Will Travel" in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 25, 1959. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, The Associated Press instructed the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to work up State of the Union speeches as they might have been written by some of history's most famous people, including the Stooges. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis, File) FILE - Jerry Seinfeld arrives at the CFDA Fashion Awards at the Brooklyn Museum on June 4, 2018, in New York. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, The Associated Press instructed the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to work up State of the Union speeches as they might have been written by some of history's most famous people, including Seinfeld. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) FILE - The shadow of the hand of a Sotheby's employee is cast over a 17th-century calf bound 1623 copy of the First Folio edition of William Shakespeare's plays at the auction house's offices in central London, on March 30, 2006. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, The Associated Press instructed the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to work up State of the Union speeches as they might have been written by some of history's most famous people, including Shakespeare. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) FILE - Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the film, "Hidden Figures," poses in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Feb. 26, 2017. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, The Associated Press instructed the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to work up State of the Union speeches as they might have been written by some of history's most famous people, including Johnson. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) FILE - Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream," speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, The Associated Press instructed the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to work up State of the Union speeches as they might have been written by some of history's most famous people, including King. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023. State of the Union speeches could be crafted on autopilot, so formulaic are they. To shake things up before President Joe Biden's speech to Congress on Tuesday night, The Associated Press asked the computer program ChatGPT to channel some of history's great thinkers, like Aristotle, and some decidedly not great ones, like the Three Stooges, and produce 300-word versions. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)