R03: Generation Meets Politics with Fake Views
- Due Oct 8, 2019 at 8am
- Points 4
- Questions 4
- Available until Dec 9, 2019 at 8am
- Time Limit None
Instructions
The world of generative design is rapidly evolving, and the kinds of things we know how to generation and the purpose to which we might apply this generative ability are changing on a weekly basis.
Take a look at this climate change opinion essay (in an article just two days old): https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/10/01/how-to-respond-to-climate-change-if-you-are-an-algorithm Links to an external site.
If you want to try out the system used to generate the essay yourself (and perhaps use it to generate ideas for your own writing), head over to Talk to Transformer Links to an external site. and paste in a prompt for your custom robot rant.
Next, look into how text generation is being deployed at scale to influence public policy in regards to net neutrality (in an article published just this morning): https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/net-neutrality-fcc-fake-comments-impersonation Links to an external site.
Towards the end of the article, there's a comment generator embedded right into the article. (Good thing at some of the journalists at BuzzFeedNews are code-literate!)