'Dear ChatGPT': 12-year-old wins top youth prize at Australian Poetry Slam – video
'Dear ChatGPT': 12-year-old wins top youth prize at Australian Poetry Slam – video
Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, has won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam for his reflections on artificial intelligence. The winning piece, performed at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night, covered doomscrolling, loneliness and intellectual atrophy. The Australian Poetry Slam competition is now in its 22nd year. It ran 65 heats in 60 towns and cities across the country to find 16 finalists. As the youth winner, Blake shares a prize package worth $20,000 with Alice Springs poet Bivor, who won the adult category for his poem Politics Is Doing You
Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT: ‘It’s totally unnecessary’
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