Yeah. I recently wrote a parody based on Shel Silverstein. It’s far from perfect, but I’m way more pleased with it than I’d be with a ChatGPT thing, because:
- Mine has clear decisions in it (what to call the four principal miscreants, based on what’s gonna work in the rhyme structure). The ChatGPT stuff makes all the decisions in advance, without regard to how they work out in practice.
- Mine has a thematic progression, plus a twist at the end. The ChatGPT was anodyne and similarly paced throughout.
- Mine has some internal wordplay (referencing crackpots, different meanings of being on one’s knees in the first and fifth stanza) that were at least satisfying to write. ChatGPT won’t have any new wordplay: the best it can do is reuse someone else’s old wordplay.
- Mostly, I just put some work into it, and I’d rather read something someone put work into than something that they cut-and-paste from a language model.