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A GPT Poem

I'm continuing to play with GPT-4 (via ChatGPT), it's both very impressive and very underwhelming. The latter I think is mostly when I feel like I'm trying to get it to do something that I think it ought to be able to do. But I also occasionally run into some of its annoying biases and content restrictions that I wish I could opt out of.

It kinda sucks with poetry. At least, the poetry I like. And the poetry I like to write, which I wouldn't call good, is strange enough that it can't really emulate its style.

I was able to get it to write one decent thing so far that I rather enjoy. It's an acrostic poem:

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