Talk is Cheap

“I was one of about 60 operators. Most of us were poets and writers with MFAs, but there were also PhDs in performance studies and comparative literature, as well as a number of opera singers, another demographic evidently well suited for chatbot impersonation – or, I suppose, for impersonating a chatbot that’s impersonating a person.” The Guardian: Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup. (Sooner or later we’ll all have a gig like this…)