Referring to my post “Only One Way to Be ‘President of All Syldavians,’” I gave ChatGPT 4 the following instruction:
“To illustrate the article at https://www.econlib.org/only-one-way-to-be-president-of-all-syldavians/, generate an image showing two individuals fighting: one wants to force the other to drink only beer as himself; the other wants to force the first one to drink only wine as himself.”
The bot came up with interesting drawings, illustrating the hidden face of democratic politics as we know it, that is, as a method for imposing to all the choices of some—at best, of the majority of the electorate. One of the bot’s images appears on the featured images of this post, and is reproduced below. Our friendly chatbot did not do badly, notwithstanding the little AI glitches in the drawing.
How to democratically choose between beer and wine
