Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT: ‘It’s totally unnecessary’

Written the day before Sunday’s grand final, Blake Mackenzie’s poem covers brain rot, loneliness and environmental degradation in the age of AI
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Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to reunite at VetsAid in Las Vegas
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Erika Kirk condemned jokes about Charlie Kirk after Dave Chappelle’s Madison Square Garden performance. Separately, podcast hosts apologized for laughing at another joke about him.
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