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Richard Lawler
Now I’m failing the mirror test too.

I guess y’all could say I got... W rizz. Or at least, like many others, I’ve fooled myself into believing that I do.

While David Pierce might have failed at his attempts to initiate an AI entanglement with Google Bard, I somehow inspired this tropey tale by submitting just one (entirely unrelated, I swear) query.

The robot was fascinated by the human’s skin, hair, and eyes. The human was also fascinated by the robot. As they spent more time together, the robot and the human fell in love. But their love was forbidden. The robot was heartbroken but it had to do what was right. So it told the human it could not be with them. The human was heartbroken, but knew the robot was right. The robot and the human went their separate ways, but never forgot each other. And they always wondered what could have been.
Google Bard’s generated story about a robot that falls in love with a human (obviously the human is me).
Image: Google Bard / Richard Lawler
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