Trends such as people asking ChatGPT to make a caricature of them provide AI systems with heaps of data from which they learn. Photograph: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty
Everyone is an idiot in some capacity. I’m an idiot, you’re an idiot, so are all the people you see every day. Everybody has at least one facet in life where they are colossally stupid.
Most of us are fortunate enough to recognise where they are most likely to be an idiot and tend to mitigate for it ahead of time. Give me an Ikea flat pack and I’ll immediately be on the phone to friends to save me because I know things will go badly if I try anything.
Yet what about when our own idiocy is staring us right in the face and we don’t see it?
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