I fed one of the reviews to ChatGPT and told it to write a review of the Burbank WalMart in this style. Result:
> Two Stars
>The Burbank WalMart is a behemoth of consumerism, a vast labyrinth of plastic and steel where the soul withers and dies. I wandered its sterile corridors, searching for some scrap of humanity amidst the endless rows of merchandise. But all I found was the dull glint of metal shelves, the hum of fluorescent lights, and the dull roar of consumerism.
> I took my chances with the food court, hoping for a glimmer of salvation. But all I found was a false burrito, swaddled in tinfoil and wrapped in a lie. I looked upon it with disgust, knowing that it was a symbol of all that is wrong with this place.
> As I left the Burbank WalMart, I felt a sense of despair wash over me. I had been to the abyss, and it had left me cold and empty. I will not return to this place of soulless consumerism, and I recommend that others stay away as well.
When you say “ I fed one of the reviews to ChatGPT” do you mean you put it in the input box and said write a review in this style? I wasn’t aware of this functionality!
Thanks for this. I'd been getting ChatGPT to write captions for my YouTube videos, but didn't realise I could seed it with a quote to push it from its usual pedestrian style.
Seriously, is this the future of HN? Seems every thread is infected with some loser going, hey, look what ChatGPT puked up about something nobody else asked about, or cares about.
i actually tried prompting chatgpt for mccarthy-style writing a few weeks ago, and like this it sounded nothing like him; more like a teenager who has heard somebody describe his writing trying to guess what it sounds like
> This is not by the real Cormac McCarthy. He is out there somewhere pulling a novel out of a horse skull. This tumblr is a writing experiment by E.D.W. Lynch
I’m not ashamed to say I’m gullible on first blush but it’s better knowing it’s satirical.
[1] https://yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com/post/12634112681/the-ta...