# I asked ChatGPT to write a sonnet to this message board

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-a-sonnet-to-this-message-board/979806>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [February 15, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-a-sonnet-to-this-message-board/979806 "2023-02-15T00:50:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-a-sonnet-to-this-message-board/979806/21 "2023-02-17T18:56:31Z")

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Yeah, here’s the transcript, it’s really something.

> **[Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html?unlocked_article_code=8M2oerWo1UBEnKbrUTcvLVPsvV9_da9wlVfd53E4Jk6XQfc7THDFgA_mkmmWOtckcCnDajqJywx1xFo3ihCk1H33nfVayRLTYhq96RSkLVZgbSD3ZTsujXjMJTZaPfAKSWyhjLVhUtgU_0H-LYsSx4NJ-4INFmjabJb1NxqrJkfB8w32Zi5x6TlAnEcQnJAvz718kHBdCCTvwSK-l7IDxI_8YnsV_4tTG-oKSG0wYT3Dc02Vo4hl3GdIvA4R7OgAzJnt6zel0SI7fgV__FS0YLJbp0r6HDuoeY0cJ6oSeCQyuOBPeuFrc5oPafzCob9EbgA_qd1Zbum2xSiRJi1iIvwi-SY&smid=url-share)**
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> In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.

Microsoft has made a bunch of changes in the last 24 hours to try to fix it, though it feels more like a feature than a bug to me. 😅

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-a-sonnet-to-this-message-board/979806/22 "2023-02-17T19:10:27Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I’ve found suggesting various writers’ styles to be a very, very generalized interpretation of how they wrote

> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> It will be interesting to see what this looks like in a couple of years.

A sequel to [this old thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-lotr-had-been-written-by-someone-else/131679)

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