For this week, I must generate a poem using ChatGPT 4.0. In some form, I didn’t get the results I was looking for. My idea was to create a short, fictional poem of a noble man who is trying to appeal to a conflicted man’s good side, persuading him that humanity is worth saving. This was my way of creating a poem that wasn’t going to be so bland and instead have something interesting to read.
At first, I was going to go with using the N +7 constraint, but it didn’t end up the way I was asking it to be. ChatGPT just gave me a warning that the output would be nonsensical and then would give me a boring result. I gave up on that and decided to go with something different.
I went with a lipogram poem where I would exclude a letter, such as “E” from the poem. I could tell that ChatGPT was trying hard to make this work, but in the end, it still ended up not doing what I had hoped. I even asked it to regenerate its text, and the result was very similar, though it did try to minimize the amount of e’s within the poem.
That didn’t work so I tried removing “D” and it still had issues performing that task. It was still not resulting in the way I had asked it to. I was beginning to realize that I could not make this work. It is time that I show what ChatGPT gave me. Here is the final result of my exploration:
In shadows, lost, a soul in plight,
His heart consumed by darkest night.
With fury strong, his thoughts ignite,
A vengeful path, an endless fight.
But look beyond this bitter fray,
And find a way, a brighter day.
In each of us, a light can sway,
A spark of hope, come what may.
In noble hearts, let’s take this stand,
With outstretched arms, we’ll lend a hand.
For in humanity, a worth so grand,
To save our world, a sacred land.