2015. The Fair Saturday Foundation is born in Bilbao: “It is time to rethink the way in which we are creating the future. It is necessary to revise the current socio-economic models to respond to the growing social, environmental and economic challenges. And that is why we consider that there are several essential elements in the construction of fairer and more developed societies: culture and social empathy”.
2018. The foundation creates a literary competition called Cuentos para pensar, aimed at children between 8 and 17 years old. Objective: “encourage reflection on different social issues through literary creativity” in order to, among other things, “deactivate hateful behavior and prevent antipathetic attitudes and actions, both in children’s and youth environments and in the digital world, favoring intercultural coexistence”. suck
2023. Sixth edition of Cuentos para pensar. A thousand students from 26 high schools in Bizkaia took part, with a compulsory topic: social networks. Well, at least 20% of the stories have used artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT. The foundation itself realized this when it saw that the level of some of the texts did not correspond to the age of the supposed authors (between 8 and 17 years old, remember). Surprised, they passed all the stories through a widget called Copyleaks, which, among other things, detects writings made with traps of this kind. The deception was discovered.
If, as I found out a few days ago, the ChatGPT is able to write magnificent praises for the mayor of duty in a matter of seconds, how can it not be able to write award-worthy stories? Literary awards, let’s say prestigious ones, can start to take off, if not that, as sometimes happens, they are already pre-agreed and obviously they won’t complain about this detail.
