A new mode of political campaigning has been put to use in New Zealand this year. All major parties and many local MPs and candidates have been using TikTok to spread their campaign narratives ahead of this year's general election. With the youngest user base of all social media platforms, in a country that has historically seen low voter turn out from 18 - 24 year olds, will we see more youth turn up to register their vote this Saturday?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene late last year and has grown so quickly and moved so invasively into my thinking, that when my 13 year old daughter said she had to prepare a speech on how ’big business was destroying the environment’, my first thought was; ‘why don’t you chuck it into Chat GPT? I bet a few in your class will.’