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Commentary: AI chatbots have been used to create hundreds of news websites

This picture taken on Jan. 23, 2023, in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows screens displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT.- ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by OpenAI.

Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats, and, now, Tim Robbins.

It’s Robbins as creepy “Bernard,” a dour IT director in “Silo,” an AppleTV+ sci-fi series about thousands of people living underground for reasons they do not understand — and that Bernard is loath to explain.

An IT boss as bad guy (so far) taps into our growing cultural anxiety about technology, be it a

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