ChatGPT thinks Richmond is obsessed with the Confederacy

This is to Richmond, a metropolis so vivid / With a wealthy tradition and heritage, a wonderful sight.

• That hovering ode comes courtesy of ChatGPT, which solely took just a few tries to provide a poem about our metropolis that did not have a good time Accomplice statues.

What’s occurring: We spent a day torturing the most popular synthetic intelligence chatbot on the web in an try to suss out what it is aware of about our metropolis.

Why it issues: ChatGPT is essentially the most superior AI writing device to hit the market, Axios’ Erica Pandey, Dan Primack and Ina Fried report.

• The free (for now) service affords seemingly limitless prospects, from answering easy inquiries to writing essay-length responses to any immediate you possibly can consider.

The large image: ChatGPT has already been utilized by actual property brokers to put in writing home listings and newsrooms to publish AI-generated tales and has even handed an MBA examination given by a Wharton College professor.

What we discovered: It is hit and miss on the subject of native information.

• It supplied 10 nice restaurant suggestions, aside from the truth that two of the locations have closed (RIP Perch and Saison) and one by no means existed. (What’s Hermitage Hill Farm?)
• It thinks the Amtrak to D.C. solely takes an hour and a half. (We want.)
• And it instructed us one of many metropolis’s nicknames is the “Capital of the Confederacy,” which does seem an terrible lot in nationwide information articles however wasn’t actually what we had been going for.

Then again, it wrote Ned a wonderful Haiku about Lee’s Rooster:

• Crispy golden pores and skin / Juicy, tender, and daring / Lee’s hen shines vivid.

Value noting: You may need seen it sounds somewhat obsessive about the Confederacy.

• That focus sadly continued once we requested it to inform us a joke concerning the metropolis. It responded by telling us a few hen that crossed the highway to get to the Robert E. Lee Monument.

Sure, however: It does reply to suggestions. We requested it to attempt once more, however to really make it humorous this time.

• It caught with the Accomplice theme however with a extra up to date spin, asking why the tomato turned pink in Richmond.
• The reply: “As a result of it noticed the Accomplice flag and acquired embarrassed!”

We’ll take it.