Ryan CordellIn our lab introducing AI writing to students I encourage them to probe the models—to try & find limit cases & places where the “wires” of the machine become visible. Some things they found:
+ the model will refuse to generate a “diss track” or write insults about either specific celebrities or platypuses
+ when asked to rewrite a paragraph “using words without the letter e” it returned the exact same words with all e’s removed
Lab prompt here:
Lab 1: Amanuenses to AI
> every figure of speech, snowclone, cliché, joke, proposition, statement, and practically every linguistic structure that can be turned into a template is easily explored with a bot. Every work of literature, every writer’s body of work, every literary movement, national literature, and textual corpus is waiting to be analyzed...