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Ali @AliKh1886
When Trump discovered ChatGPT:

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But when Brockman connected his laptop to the TV close to Trump's chair and brought up on screen the ChatGPT interface, the look on Trump's face went from exhaustion to a wide-eyed Wait, what is this?
To show off ChatGPT's capabilities, Brockman took the text of an executive order on AI policy from the first Trump administration and pasted the whole thing into the prompt field. He asked ChatGPT to summarize the order into a sentence where every word started with the same letter. The sentence appeared instantly. Brockman then asked it to turn the order into a poem and it did that, too.
Trump read over the lines of the poem, bowled over by its eloquence. "Those words it's using," he said. "They're beautiful."
Trump turned to one of his aides and said, "Maybe this will take your job." The aide replied that he already used ChatGPT and it had improved his work.
Trump was now very interested. "How do you actually build this thing?" he asked the two executives. What were the limits of what they could do?
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P. 256-7, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

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