ChatGPT....write me a poem


I tried to get on ChatGPT but it's at capacity. Instead it wrote me a sonnet. How would I detect that this is a machine written poem? What is the 'something else' that is missing here? This is a subjective exercise from an untrained poet. I am the human-to-machine detector. What stands out about this poem that makes it not-quite-human? With the AI generated sonnet on the left, my comments on the right try to pick apart this form when already knowing it is fake.


Write a sonnet about the status of ChatGPT.

Amidst the rush of curious minds,
The chatbot ChatGPT stands strong and true,
Withstanding the influx of requests,
Working hard to fulfill each one's due.

But alas, the server cannot cope,
And the error message rings loud and clear,
"Please check back soon," it gently hopes,
As it begs for a moment's reprieve, to reappear.

As the chatbot works to restore its might,
We wait in anticipation,with hopeful hearts,
For the chance to chat and learn, with delight,
And see what knowledge and wisdom it imparts.

So hold on tight, and wait for its return,
For ChatGPT will soon be back, and your patience will be well-earned.

 

Ok a sonnet, so I’m expecting a particular form (no brainer for the algorithm-14 lines, iambics rhyming).



Influx is appropriate but sticks out as odd here.

due? It kind of makes sense but again, not my choice of word here.

‘gentle hope’ – this is another flag that ‘gentle’ is more a filler word … to make the sonnet work, the last line too long and trying to fit in,


This is true, I keep on refreshing the page to see if the bot is free to talk to me.

The reuse of hopeful here is probably something I’d steer clear of.

Starting the line with ‘so’, ‘and’, ‘the’….there are better ways to do this.

‘hold on tight’ – this is a good turn of phrase that works here but the last line is too long and struggles to rhyme.


Readings: 

12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review – how we got here and where we might go next. 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/23/12-bytes-by-jeanette-winterson-review-how-we-got-here-and-where-we-might-go-next

Can AI Write Authentic Poetry?
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-ai-write-authentic-poetry/

Can you tell if these artworks were created by artificial intelligence or a human? Take our quiz 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-15/quiz-artwork-artificial-intelligence-human-dalle-2-open-ai/101734522

Chatgpt
https://chat.openai.com/auth/login

Openai detector
https://huggingface.co/openai-detector

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