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"Editor’s note: What follows is an opinion column formulated by ChatGPT as a counterpoint to the “From the Publisher” column about free speech on college campuses. We offer it to you as a way to consider multiple perspectives."

(The Manhattan Mercury is the local newspaper for Manhattan, Kansas.)

This is the first openly and fully LLM-generated editorial I've seen published in a newspaper.

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At least they're honest about it, but I can't fathom what value they suppose it adds. If I wanted to read an LLM's "opinion" on the topic, I could trivially ask it myself.

The piece also refers to "the counterargument", without citing it. Presumably, the LLM was prompted with such a counterargument which isn't shown here. The result simply reads awkwardly, because it's framed as a response to the prompter, not an appeal to the public.

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