Fascinating and stimulating! I confess I am relieved to find your version the best of the lot. Is this experiment now available to AI for its learning?
Thrice the cultured vulture regurgitated foetid carrion and thrice ‘twas swallowed whole by all and sundry including Richard the ion hearted, father of the meme. The Ides of March is nigh.
There's randomization factors in the internals of ChatGPT, so that it doesn't generate the same poem or same song all the time from the same prompt (which would be a pretty dull outcome, if every prompt had exactly one output). And you can ask as many times as you like, it won't get annoyed.
I copied the three Richard Dawkins Sonnets to study them in depth. As pointed out the Scansion has several errors besides the ones he listed. So I can take comfort that while not equal to ChatGpt, if it cannot be perfect, my Sonnets are not that bad from a lowly human. But this use of AI for creating poetry to overshadow the human mind is destructive to its creativity and disastrous.
I’ve been experimenting wit ChatGPT in scriptwriting. Just simple stuff so far. Results seem corollary. Given enough input to get started it can pop out a well formatted not too bad version. More brief prompts and definite improvement. But it does need help with word choices. Formatting, solid B. Creativity, D.
I am so surprised. That the scientist, Richard Dawkins likes sonnets. I also write Shakespearean sonnets. But the examples you provided from CHATGpt far excels my humble sonnet. But since you even drafted such a good one, may I send you mine for some critique?
This is death.
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Fascinating and stimulating! I confess I am relieved to find your version the best of the lot. Is this experiment now available to AI for its learning?
… these aren’t good poems.
Does ChatGPT believe in God?
Or art?
I asked Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.7 to write it in the style of Omar Khayyam:
Evolution in the Style of Omar Khayyam
From primordial waters life emerged one day,
A spark of chance that time would not betray;
The universe, indifferent to its birth,
Watched as it changed in nature's silent play.
The finch's beak, the turtle's ancient shell,
Each creature's story has its tale to tell;
Through countless generations, death, and birth,
In nature's grand design, they rise and fell.
The hand that shapes the wing and builds the fin
Cares not for beauty, suffering, or sin;
Just survival's test through ages passed,
Where only those who fit their world can win.
And we who ponder life's mysterious ways,
Are but a moment in time's endless phase;
From dust to life, and back to dust again,
The wheel turns on through all our fleeting days.
The rhyme scheme is accurate: he used AABA in each quatrain. Top marks.
Thrice the cultured vulture regurgitated foetid carrion and thrice ‘twas swallowed whole by all and sundry including Richard the ion hearted, father of the meme. The Ides of March is nigh.
There's randomization factors in the internals of ChatGPT, so that it doesn't generate the same poem or same song all the time from the same prompt (which would be a pretty dull outcome, if every prompt had exactly one output). And you can ask as many times as you like, it won't get annoyed.
I copied the three Richard Dawkins Sonnets to study them in depth. As pointed out the Scansion has several errors besides the ones he listed. So I can take comfort that while not equal to ChatGpt, if it cannot be perfect, my Sonnets are not that bad from a lowly human. But this use of AI for creating poetry to overshadow the human mind is destructive to its creativity and disastrous.
Ask it to write a sonnet about convicted felon Donald John Trump. Here's mine (not AI):
The Bushes of Delusion
Ignorance – bane of human intellect
against which we struggle inward and out –
with Trump receives new motive to infect,
manipulated by that human lout.
Science newly fights forces that constrain,
losing vital power to light our way.
Truth eternal, lettered in granite grain,
erodes as fake voices lie and gainsay.
Intelligent design by evil minds
has trumped the thinking man down in the street.
He opens his device; behold, he finds
the world revolves around a tinny tweet:
“The tree of knowledge leads to confusion.
Here. Eat from the bushes of delusion.”
I’ve been experimenting wit ChatGPT in scriptwriting. Just simple stuff so far. Results seem corollary. Given enough input to get started it can pop out a well formatted not too bad version. More brief prompts and definite improvement. But it does need help with word choices. Formatting, solid B. Creativity, D.
I am so surprised. That the scientist, Richard Dawkins likes sonnets. I also write Shakespearean sonnets. But the examples you provided from CHATGpt far excels my humble sonnet. But since you even drafted such a good one, may I send you mine for some critique?
Asking for a sonnet in the same motif here is what I received from Microsoft Copilot:
From ocean's depths, in whispered waves of fate,
The dawn of life, an odyssey divine,
From single cells, complexity creates,
In tapestry of genes, their paths align.**
**Through aeons vast, in nature's grand ballet,
From prokaryotes to creatures myriad,
Diverse and varied, life's vast array,
A wondrous journey, each step a myriad.**
**Thus, Earth bestowed its gift, a vibrant sphere,
Where life's tenacious spirit shall adhere.**
I took your version of the poem and put it through Anthropic's Claude 3.7, which has a much more human voice - what do you think?:
The Tapestry of Life
From ancient seas where first the spark began,
A trembling light amid the vast unknown,
Through time's long march, by nature's hidden plan,
The seeds of life to countless forms have grown.
The patient hand of change, both harsh and kind,
Shapes claw and fin and wing with silent skill,
Where need meets chance, new pathways are designed,
And creatures rise, adapting to life's will.
The curved beak's purpose, camouflage's art,
Tell stories of survival's endless quest;
Each species writes its chapter, plays its part,
As those who fit their changing world thrive best.
Through countless deaths and births, through joy and strife,
Unfolds the ever-changing tale of life.
Did you use the paid version of ChatGPT?
I find this VERY troubling!!