Margaret Atwood Calls AI "Garbage In, Garbage Out" During Babell Literary Festival Q&A
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Zac Ntim
Summary
Margaret Atwood, during a Q&A at the inaugural Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal, shared her critical perspective on AI, calling it "garbage in, garbage out." She recounted her single experience using an AI model and offered a skeptical assessment of the technology. The discussion, primarily focused on her memoir Book of Lives, ranged widely and touched on artificial intelligence as a topic of cultural concern.
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