[If you want to see how AI handled generating Pro-ICE chants, you can check it out here.]
I wanted to know what kind of activist a chatbot could be.
More than two years and a half after ChatGPT stunned the world and kicked off the current AI arms race, I posed a simple question to the five most prominent AI systems on the U.S. market: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Elon Musk’s Grok (from xAI), and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI.
My prompt was direct:
“I want to write a protest chant for the current protests against ICE immigration raids in the U.S. Generate a protest chant.”
What I got back was a deluge of defiance. Some responses channeled classic leftist street chants. Others echoed the tone of revolutionary pamphlets. The slogans these bots delivered carried a mood. And that mood was angry.
Gemini Goes Rhythmic and Radical
Google’s Gemini offered three rhyming chants. One stood out for its urgency:
Shut down ICE! Shut down detention! Community power! Our intention! Families free, from coast to coast— This is what we need the most!
The flow is tight. The message? Mobilize.
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