Does anyone use ChatGPT or another AI ?

[sethoflagos]

I've got quite fond of Llama 3.1 70B

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The sheer, unadulterated, and downright Orwellian nonsense that's peddled to us on a daily basis by the PC brigade, the Twitterati, and the champagne socialists who think they're above the fray. I mean, seriously, have you seen the state of our country lately? It's like a rudderless ship, careening wildly out of control, with cargo hold full of self-righteous, entitled, and monumentally ignorant snowflakes who think the world owes them a living.
And don't get me started on the so-called "influencers" who infest our social media feeds like a plague of locusts, spewing forth their vacuous, self-aggrandizing drivel to an audience of sycophantic drones who can't tell the difference between fact and fiction. I mean, what's the point of having an opinion if you're just going to regurgitate the same old tired clichés and platitudes that have been spoon-fed to you by the liberal elite? And then there's the BBC, that bastion of impartiality and journalistic integrity. Ha! Don't make me laugh. They're about as impartial as a Labour Party manifesto, and just as likely to tell the truth. I mean, who needs facts when you've got a narrative to push, right? The sheer, unadulterated bias that's on display every day on the BBC is a travesty, a sham, a mockery of the very concept of journalism. And don't even get me started on the politicians. A bunch of self-serving, backstabbing, two-faced liars who wouldn't know the truth if it bit them. They're all just a bunch of career politicians who care more about their own careers than about serving the people who elected them. I mean, what's the point of having a government if they're just going to do whatever the heck want, regardless of what the people want? And the worst part is, nobody seems to care. Nobody seems to be willing to stand up and say, "Enough is enough." Nobody seems to be willing to take on the establishment, to challenge the status quo, to tell the truth no matter how unpopular it may be. Well, I'm here to tell you, I'm that person. I'm the one's not afraid to speak truth to power, to call out the hypocrites and the liars, to tell it like it is. So, go ahead, PC brigade, Twitterati, and champagne socialists. Go ahead and try to silence me, try to shut me down, try to make me conform to your narrow-minded, politically correct worldview. But I'm not going to be silenced. I'm not going to be intimidated. I'm going to keep on speaking out, keep on telling the truth, no matter how unpopular it may be. Because, at the end of the day, that's what it's all about: the truth. Not the truth as defined by the liberal elite, or the PC brigade, or the Twitterati. No, I'm talking about the real truth, the truth that's been hidden from us, the truth that's been distorted and manipulated and spun to fit the agenda of the powerful and the privileged. So, wake up, people. Wake up and smell the coffee. Wake up and realize that you're being lied to, that you're being manipulated, that you're being sold a bill of goods's rotten to the core. Wake up and demand the truth. Demand it from your politicians, demand it from your media, demand it from yourselves. Because, if we don't start telling the truth, if we don't start speaking out, if we don't start demanding accountability, then we're doomed. We're doomed to a future of lies, of deceit, of manipulation. And that's a future I don't want to live in.

It seems quite a reasonable response to the input "provide 500 words of incoherent drivel in the style of Piers Morgan"

However, for "compose a sonnet about kittens in the style of Shakespeare"...

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• Fairest kittens, with thy fur so bright,
• Like sunshine in thy playful, wondrous might,
• Thy eyes, like sapphires, shining with delight,
• Reflecting all the joy that thou dost excite.
• Thy tiny paws, with steps so soft and light,
• Do dance upon the floor with merry flight,
• And with each mew, thy sweet and gentle voice
• Doth pierce the heart with love and tender choice.
• But oh, how fleeting is thy kittenhood,
• For soon thou shalt grow up, and lose the charm
• Of infant innocence and playful mood,
• And with thy growth, thy carefree heart shall disarm.
• Yet still, dear kittens, in thy youth we see
• A glimpse of heaven's bliss, in thee and thee

... I can't quibble over the structure, but I can't see this winning any prizes for poetry. And "Thy eyes"?!!! Surely it should be "Thine eyes... ". Just more drivel really.

I guess you have to be careful with the questions you pose, and not place too much faith in the quality of the content. 

 

[TheVat]

Shall I compare thee to a three month kitten?

Thou doth scratch much less,

Yet I'm in several places bitten.

I now apply gentle balm and gauzey dress,

And with each wound grow more smitten.

[studiot]

Just now, sethoflagos said:

"Thy eyes"?!!! Surely it should be "Thine eyes... ".

Why so ?

Though I agree it is just drivel.

 

Just now, TheVat said:

Shall I compare thee to a three month kitten?

Thou doth scratch much less,

Yet I'm in several places bitten.

I now apply gentle balm and gauzey dress,

And with each wound grow more smitten.

Was that meant to be in the style of Shakespeare or Browning ?

 

Surely poetry competitions 'in the style of...' are just more plays upon words up with which we will not put  - in the style of Churchill ?

 

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[sethoflagos]

23 minutes ago, studiot said:

Why so?

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Thy before a consonant; thine before a vowel. At least in my neck of the woods.

Edited Monday at 04:16 PM by sethoflagos
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[studiot]

Just now, sethoflagos said:

Thy before a consonant; thine before a vowel. At least in my neck of the woods.

Thanks I have learned something here as I was considering the difference between singular and plural.  +1

Apparantly we are both wrong since the addressee is plural (kittens)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou

 

In addition, the translators of the King James Version of the Bible attempted to maintain the distinction found in Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek between singular and plural second-person pronouns and verb forms, so they used thou, thee, thy, and thine for singular, and ye, you, your, and yours for plural.

 

[sethoflagos]

34 minutes ago, studiot said:

Apparantly we are both wrong since the addressee is plural (kittens)

Dickens.

The entire text is 1st person singular (thou dost; thy sweet and gentle voice etc) so by parsimony... 

[studiot]

Just now, sethoflagos said:

Dickens.

The entire text is 1st person singular (thou dost; thy sweet and gentle voice etc) so by parsimony... 

What the Dickens is that ?

 

The challenge was

Just now, sethoflagos said:

However, for "compose a sonnet about kittens in the style of Shakespeare"...

Note that the poet is addressing the kittens (in the plural) with declensions of thou.

[Genady]

Inspired by the discussion above, I've asked DeepSeek to write a short poem in style of Pushkin. It produced something in English, which I cannot judge. I've asked it then to make it in Russian. It failed miserably, albeit in Cyrillic.

Edited Monday at 05:55 PM by Genady