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Blake Mackenzie, 12, wins Australian Poetry Slam youth prize with ChatGPT poem

Newcastle’s Blake Mackenzie, 12, took the Australian Poetry Slam’s highest youth award for a poem about artificial intelligence. His Sydney Opera House performance explored doomscrolling, loneliness and intellectual decline. Now in its 22nd year, the competition awarded a shared $20,000 prize package to Mackenzie and adult-category winner Bivor.

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What to know

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    The competition held 65 heats across 60 Australian towns and cities to select 16 finalists.

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    Bivor, a poet from Alice Springs, won the adult category with Politics Is Doing You.

Why it matters

The award offers a concrete example of a young poet using performance to reflect on artificial intelligence.

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