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-{{a|tech|{{image|Electric Monk|jpg|An electric monk, yesterday.}}}}{{quote|“''The electric monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself;<ref>For thirty years, [[Grandma Contrarian]] had the 1981 Royal Wedding taped on video. It was her most prized possession. Not once did any of us watch it.</ref> electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”
+{{a|tech|{{image|chat chat|png|An electric monk, yesterday.}}}}{{quote|“''The electric monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself;<ref>For thirty years, [[Grandma Contrarian]] had the 1981 Royal Wedding taped on video. It was her most prized possession. Not once did any of us watch it.</ref> electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.”
 :—The late, greatly lamented {{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{br|Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency}}}}
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 It is a fine trick to play on ourselves. ''But'' — why be so quick to cede superiority to an algorithm? Is not the magician behind the velvet curtain really ''us''?
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 ===Update upon Update===
 It seems now — if that godhead of enlightened debate and joustery [[LinkedIn]] is anything to go by — that the moment may have arrived. Per the offering on the left, [[ChatGPT]] bots can now supply your witty repartee, and stunning hot-takes ''for you''. Why go to the trouble of writing your own dreck when you can deploy a robot to do it for you? We have a suspicion that LinkedIn Premium types have been deploying chatbots to write their posts for some time now, so, in a sense, it is only fair we should be allowed to deploy our own boredom machines to read these dismal offerings, and comment on them. Show ''them'' same level of disinterested contempt for their audience that they show us, so to speak.