Even ChatGPT ‘imagined’ J D Vance’s visit to Greenland as vaguely threatening
Ask ChatGPT to portray the arrival of an American politician in Greenland and it ‘imagines’ something that might almost be seen as the run-up to an invasion.
Take a look. One has to laugh at some of the more ludicrous iterations of ChatGPT’s ‘imagination’ but you’ve got to admit that the scene in Greenland’s capital Nuuk did appear vaguely like an American invasion five days before J D Vance’s March 28 arrival on the Arctic island.
After a stream of aircraft flew in, a prominent media outlet reassured readers, as follows: “The cargo planes that landed in Nuuk on Sunday were not the opening wave of an American invasion. Instead they unloaded four bulletproof cars in preparation for a visit.”
Mr Vance, his wife and two other senior members of the Trump administration – National Security Adviser Trump’s Mike Waltz and the energy secretary – had a limited itinerary in Greenland. They would visit America’s Pituffik Space Base and go nowhere else.
That was not for want of trying.
Usha Vance was originally supposed to pay a cultural visit to “learn about Greenlandic heritage” by attending the country’s dogsled race. But the uproar in Greenland and Denmark over her uninvited foray led to a change of plan, the addition of her husband and a trimming of the itinerary.
Even so, they flew into Nuuk with incendiary words ringing in Greenland’s ears from Donald Trump back in Washington, D.C. On March 27, Mr Trump repeated his intentions with respect to Greenland: “We’re going to have to have it.” The next day, with the Vances on the snow so to speak, he reiterated his claim that the US needs Greenland for “world peace”. Mr Trump said: “I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it. And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them.”
Talk about threatening.
