GPT-3 writes climate change protest letters to Trump, Xi, and Putin

The COVID-19 pandemic, anti-racism protests, and an impending global recession might have pushed global warming off the public agenda, but don't worry -- the climate crisis is looking worse than ever. A new art project aims to revive interest in the emergency by giving a voice to the environment. Letters from Nature uses AI to write epistles to world leaders warning of the dangers, on behalf of the world's glaciers, coral reefs, ice caps, and disappearing islands. To generate the letters, artist Jeroen van der Most and AI researcher Peter van der Putten fed a short prompt to GPT-3, OpenAI's unnervingly powerful text generator. The model then spat back a climate protest letter, addressed to one of the world's most powerful people, and signed by one of its most threatened entities.