satire
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But others kept pushing the boundaries of AI — mostly as overt parody or satire, an arena that offers greater 1st Amendment protection.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
Fountain’s 2012 hit novel “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” is a masterpiece of satire, and somehow, he’s managed to do it again.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
The fourth season of the wealth satire is currently being filmed in the south of France, and will be set during the Cannes Film Festival.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
There’s plenty of furtive gags like this throughout “Up in Smoke”: police incompetence, absent parents, anti-war rhetoric and racial stereotypes that function as satire.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
In 1704 Jonathan Swift, later the author of Gulliver’s Travels, published a little satire entitled The Battle of the Books.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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