[thomashop]

"I cannot emphasize this enough: ChatGPT is not generating meaning. It is arranging word patterns. I could tell GPT to add in an anomaly for the 1970s - like the girl looking at Billy’s Instagram - and it would introduce it into the text without a comment about being anomalous."

I asked ChatGPT to introduce the girl looking at Billy's instagram. The response:

"Instagram didn't exist in the 1970s. Do you want to keep the setting authentic to the '70s or update the story to a contemporary timeframe where Instagram fits naturally?"

[LeoPanthera]

To be fair, the very first version of ChatGPT, which this post is about when it was written two years ago, probably would not have queried it.

[moffkalast]

Needs (2022) then.

[JohnKemeny]

I added "She should look at Billy's instagram while listening" and got

> Reasoned for 6 seconds

> Her room was dim, a quiet refuge. On the shelf, records sat like relics of her inner life. She placed Carole King’s Tapestry on the turntable, letting its soft crackle fill the space. Beside her bed lay a small smartphone—a strange anachronism—and she swiped open Billy’s Instagram feed. There, his easy smile and snapshots from math class met her longing gaze. The music and the digital images merged, each note echoing her uncertainty: did he really notice her?