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by yarone 1189 days ago
Another one that came to my mind: "The Fun They Had" by Asimov

"Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had."

http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/Isaac%2...

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It's funny that you mention "The Fun They Had", because if you visit its Wikipedia page now, the summary looks written by a bot. It looks like "basic" English, only with a weird quality to it -- either written by someone whose grasp of language is very poor, or by ChatGPT. I'd say worse than ChatGPT actually: the sentences are short and almost mechanical. Go look at it.

The edit changing a way more human-sounding plot summary to this version was made on September 2022, in case anyone is wondering.

PS: if GPT derives much of its data from Wikipedia, and people start using GPT to write Wikipedia articles, I wonder what kind of strange feedback loop we're getting into.