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Ellul anticipates the AI prompting racket:
"Computers require clear language that is never ambiguous [...] then the speaker must follow these rules if the machine is to understand. [...] But this great effort involves converting language into something that is not the word: all the richness and openness to truth lie precisely in what must be eliminated in order for the computer to understand." (161)
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"Computers require clear language that is never ambiguous [...] then the speaker must follow these rules if the machine is to understand. [...] But this great effort involves converting language into something that is not the word: all the richness and openness to truth lie precisely in what must be eliminated in order for the computer to understand." (161)
