Dan GillmorChatGPT appears to have a refined sense of the absurd. I asked it to write a ridiculous (but standard) Republican-Democrat, both-sides New York Times political story, and it did exactly that.
author_is_ShrikeTronđź” đź’‰x5@dangillmor Can you ask it to demo a both-sides write-up, and then rebut itself with why the both-sides version is wrong?
@ShrikeTron What prompt would you suggest?
@dangillmor Not sure I can improve on what you had, but:
"Write a news story, in the style of the New York Times Washington bureau, on the debate that has arisen because Republicans say the sky is green while the Democrats say the sky is blue.
Then identify why it is bothsides-ism, or false-balance, and why it's wrong or not useful for new-media to write articles this way."
@dangillmor Love it, thank you!
This is the kind of article that NYT wouldn't write, lol.