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The Harris campaign word-salad generator

By Bill Ponton

If you’ve ever wondered how those delightful word salads emerge from the lips of Kamala Harris, wonder no more. After running an experiment with artificial intelligence (AI), I’ve surmised that the Harris campaign might be employing the latest in Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate talking points on everything from immigration to climate. The first thing to know about LLMs, like ChatGPT, is that they harbor an uncanny knowledge of the frequency of word and phrase usage in the English language. Armed with this knowledge, ChatGPT can produce a reasonable continuation of whatever text it’s got so far—by “reasonable” I mean what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of pages in digitized books and articles. It’s a wonderfully built machine for generating trite content, and it’s entirely believable that Harris believes this will rescue her campaign.

Let’s see how the Harris campaign might generate a talking point on say climate. It could start by asking ChatGPT to rank a list of words that might follow the word “climate” at the beginning of a sentence together with their probabilities. ChatGPT perkily responds: more