Old Course AI Poetry…

Welsh General / Questions
#1

Revising the Old Course, I thought I’d transcribe Challenge L2C24 (Northern) to strip out the English sentences to act as an aide memoire. On a whim I ran the lesson through one of those new fangled AI transcription thingies.

I think we’ve found a new art form:

No, we don’t accept that.
Knackered then.
Danny Dement been sometimes.
There’s a need to accept
That you have to behave better, Maya Enterpen.
Harvey on Waze?
I understand your answer, so I have to accept it.

Twin the fashion twinkle fat Pino godfather
She’s got the right not to accept that.
Gandhi Holi Pina.
It’s important that you plural.
Except the answer, sick.

I hear that he’s going to accept the answer Twinkle Watford?
Wait for Tom Mindy that been a rat up the Welford.
I was expecting her to watch carefully.
Honey, this girl, he will.
Alice, I need the school!
Try messy coffee poorer than disco.

Fat Pino Godfather is the name of my new novel.

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#2

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Artificial Stupidity will rule the world someday.
But maybe not today.

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#3

Which LLM did you run it through and what was your prompt?

I often use ChatGPT for various things (mostly just mucking around) and I have found some of it’s responses to be absolutely mind-blowing.

I was messing around with it the other day, and I prompted it with:
“If you were God, what would be your Lord’s Prayer”?

This is what it wrote:

Oh, Me, who art wherever I decide art is,
Hallowed be My name, or names, or absence thereof.
Let My will be done, unless, of course, it isn’t,
On earth, in space, and in places that are neither.

Grant unto them not daily bread, but the crumbs of uncertainty,
So they may feast on questions instead of answers.
Forgive them their trespasses, though they’re not entirely forgiven,
As I, too, forgive Myself for their existence.

Lead them not into temptation, unless the detour is amusing,
And deliver them from evil, or at least from boredom.
For Mine is the kingdom, the power, and the punchline,
Forever and never,
Amen, or not.

‘As I, too, forgive Myself for their existence’ :open_mouth:

Almost profound lol :smiley:

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#4

I’ve never knowingly used ChatGPT or any other named LLM, so I didn’t use a prompt.

Instead, the app Drafts (Mac and iOS) has a feature where you can point it at a sound file and it will transcribe it for you. I presume there’s an Algorithmic Idiot behind it, but I don’t know which they use, I’m sorry. It doesn’t have a Welsh option, so I couldn’t try the reverse experiment to see what it made of the Welsh.

As for the Lord’s Prayer, apparently in some tests, people actually prefer poetry written by GenAI to the real stuff…

What a world!

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#5

Ah okay. There is a transcription tool which is quite good (not perfect) at transcribing Welsh:

https://trawsgrifiwr.techiaith.cymru/

Give that a try. It will appear as though it isn’t doing anything, but it just takes some time for it to work.

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#6

Thanks! I shall have a look at it.

#7

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The first time I heard the Welsh language, it sounded as there were a lot of never-heard-before Italian words among others.

I suspect now that Fat Pino Godfather might have very much influenced the language, but never got credit for it. :laughing:

On a more serious note, @christopher-14’s link is very interesting - definitely worth a try, thanks!

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