Essay links Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to modern large language models

A new essay argues that Swift's third voyage in Gulliver's Travels, featuring the Projectors and their text-generating device, anticipated pitfalls of today's large language models.

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2026-11-03 16:15 · The Conversation AI (US)
Jonathan Swift foresaw the pitfalls of AI in Gulliver’s Travels

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