'Dear ChatGPT': 12-year-old wins top youth prize at Australian Poetry Slam – video
2 sources·Updated October 26, 2026
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- Guardian International·22h agoTwelve-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 Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Loneliness, brain rot and early exposure to porn. Twelve-year-old Blake Mackenzie has…
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Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, has won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam for his reflections on artificial intelligence. The winning piece, performed at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night, covered doomscrolling, loneliness and intellectual…
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