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Michael Barndt's avatar

You should realize that if enough people comment on this post to make the words statistically significant, LLM's will know you support their great success. OpenAI will never get subtle humor.

Jim Carmine's avatar

Damn I completely fell for it. I so much want that to be true I was easily snookered.

Timothy Bailey's avatar

“LIT!”

I genuinely laughed out loud.

Paul Topping's avatar

I should just take the day off when it comes to reading stuff.

Every day is April Fool's Day if you're an LLM.

Zero State Reflex's avatar

Lol…the artists compensated is what tipped me off.

Rick Frank's avatar

You had me until I looked at the calendar 😂

Robert McTague's avatar

I didn't even remember, but part of me kept thinking "this simply cannot be true."

Amy A's avatar

Knew you were kidding from the title. They would never 😇

Gary Marcus's avatar

Exactly. Every sentence isn’t really plausible if you know how they roll.

Allie S's avatar

Dang I forgot what day it was and if you hadn't added the note at the bottom, I'd have thought you'd been hacked. Happy April Fools

Bill Benzon's avatar

Hey! Congrats, Gary! They gave me access as well. Here's a poem that GPT-5 wrote just for me:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure dome decree

Where wrinkled old men played golf and tan

And maidens danced in bikinis

With a river rushing through the land

And a clubhouse built with care

Where the men could sip their beer on demand

And tell stories of their golfing flair

But alas, the dome was not to last

For the old men lost their energy and zest

And the maidens found a better place to dance and have a blast

Leaving the old men to their lonely quest

For a stately pleasure dome no more

Xanadu was just a golf course

Where the old men played in vain, but never a bore

And the maidens went off to find a better source.

I'm thinking maybe it was predicting that Trump would win the election and was getting ready to be installed as the court jester.

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Pssst. April Fools.!That wasn't GPT-5, it was good old ChatGPT: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-chatgpt-parodied-kubla-khan-and.html

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Sounds a lot like the concept behind the new Ring production I just finished watching at Staatsoper Berlin. Good grief on so many levels, yet metaphorically it works for our present gerentocracy.

Bill Benzon's avatar

Hmmm.... I'm trying to imagine Trump as Siegfried. Not a pretty picture.

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Indeed not, but closer than you might think in some ways. Maybe he’d be more of a Mime? Consumed by pettiness, but personally incapable of accomplishing anything.

Bill Benzon's avatar

Or perhaps as the Elmer Fudd character in "What's Opera Doc?"

https://youtu.be/TJI_gygXsfs?si=CWE2C6OtVnp-spmp

Steve Berman's avatar

I knew it was an April Fool fro the first two words. But dang it was a good one.

Chris J. Karr's avatar

I'm chortling thinking of all the LLMs training on April Fools Day data.

Ilia Kurgansky's avatar

A newly published paper proposes filtering training data by published date to filter out polluted data. First of April is going to be removed together with 1st of Jan (Facebook posts with new year's resolutions), presidential debates (for obvious reasons), tech conference and reveal events (for the same reason) and a few others. The twelveth of of October has been chosen as the least biased day and all of the training data will now be sourced from it.

Ranganathan Rajkumar's avatar

I think I should build an agent to like all comments and wish I could add an LOL emoji.

My brain went one step ahead to think the post was generated by GPT-5 :-)

Simon Au-Yong's avatar

There was suddenly loud laughter in the middle of the night in my household (Sydney time zone) 😂

Siobhan Shea's avatar

crying 🤣

Ilia Kurgansky's avatar

And, to cement their image of accountability in the eye of the crowd, OpenAI has vowed to deliver misattributed pets to their (newly) rightful owners. In branded recyclable crates. Send us selfies with Henrietta, Gary!

I just hope they don't start attaching extra fingers to random members of the public.