Make Orwell Fiction Again

Make Orwell Fiction Again

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Johanna Neuman
Feb 28, 2024
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In his novel 1984, a template for our times, author George Orwell famously said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Never was that prediction more accurate than this month, when Google’s Gemini AI chatbot was asked for a photo of George Washington, and produced the tall, handsome black man seen above.…

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