Chatbots Are Spewing Out All the Worst Clichés

"ChatGPT, the popular bot released to the public by OpenAI late last year, is obsessed with clichés and uses them all the time. Perhaps it is no coincidence that use of the chatbot has already become common in areas of life where people write formulaically and blandly—student essays, cover letters, BuzzFeed quizzes, etc. If I wanted to reapply for my own job, ChatGPT suggests I begin by saying, “As an avid reader of your publication, I am drawn to the high-quality journalism and thought-provoking analysis that The Atlantic consistently delivers.” ChatGPT has been in the news near-constantly during the past several months, because a future full of chatbots raises many complicated, existential questions about how humans can coexist with artificial intelligence. But it also raises another question, to which there is an obvious, simple answer: Are chatbots ushering in a new golden age of clichés? Yes.

ChatGPT can write you anything, but it can’t write you anything good. If you ask ChatGPT to write something that has any kind of tired and played-out associations, they’ll all appear. Dialogue from Survivor: “She put a target on her back.” Toast at a holiday party: “Our team has risen to the occasion time and time again.” High-school-graduation speech: “Once again, congratulations to my fellow graduates. We did it. And as we move on to the next chapter of our lives, let us always remember the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‘Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.’” 

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