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What do you get if you make AI eat its own words?

Just as analogue documents and old cassette tapes of the Grateful Dead degrade with each copy produced, so chatbots can cannibalise themselves into incomprehensibility

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observer.co.uk What do you get if you make AI eat its own words? Not wha... Just as analogue documents and old cassette tapes of the Grateful Dead degrade with each copy produced, so chatbots can cannibalise themselves into incomprehensibility

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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: La Bola Negra, I Play Rocky, Ramayana and more

An ambitious, audacious Spanish epic is one of the finest pictures of the year. Plus, a rags-to-riches Sylvester Stallone biopic

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observer.co.uk Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: La Bola Negra, I Play Ro... An ambitious, audacious Spanish epic is one of the finest pictures of the year. Plus, a rags-to-riches Sylvester Stallone biopic

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Inside the trial of Russell Brand

Tom Lee sat through all 18 days of the would-be guru’s trial. He heard the harrowing detail of Brand’s sexual crimes, and watched a man so full of self-serving words finally reduced to guilty silence

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observer.co.uk Inside the trial of Russell Brand | The Observer Tom Lee sat through all 18 days of the would-be guru’s trial. He heard the harrowing detail of Brand’s sexual crimes, and watched a man so full of self-serving words finally reduced to guilty silence

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Rise of the Rockstar Chef – the only thing on the menu at this reunion is beef

A docuseries reheats a decades-old feud between Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay, with Heston Blumenthal reduced to a side dish.

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observer.co.uk Rise of the Rockstar Chef – the only thing on the menu at... A docuseries reheats a decades-old feud between Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay, with Heston Blumenthal reduced to a side dish. Plus, why I’m eating my hat over All’s Fair

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Entering the Age of Censorship (for Sally Rooney)

The Booker prizewinner Ben Okri presents a new work in defence of the Irish writer and her stance on Palestine Action

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observer.co.uk Ben Okri’s new poem for Sally Rooney | The Observer The Booker prizewinner presents a new work in defence of the Irish writer and her stance on Palestine Action