I asked ChatGPT to proofread a story. It was originally published in 2019 by Reflex Fiction.
There are three errors that I purposely inserted to see if The Machine would catch them. Strike-through text highlights the mistakes in the story.
I apologize in advance. The story is quite sad but 100% made up. Pure fiction.
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As you may know, I have a thing about lists, so it seems appropriate to put ChatGPT through its paces, listwise. Let’s start with Santa Claus and his flying reindeer.
I know that Rudolph was not in the original poem, so I asked The Machine to brief me on the list of reindeer names.
Prompt
The names of Santa’s reindeer have evolved over the years. In list form, tell me their names through history.
NOTE: the result was a voluminous text outlining the history of reindeer names, plus a summary paragraph that got to the point of my question. I’ll spare you the wordy rhetoric and share the bulleted recap.
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Dear Editors,
Your Lit Mags and Journals are probably being infiltrated with GPT-partnered stories or AI-plagiarized writing. It’s becoming a problem.
For writers like myself who produce original work, please consider using one of the tools listed below to help detect derivative content. You are one of the last lines of defense to keep creative writing pure.
NOTE: In previous posts I used ChatGPT to aid in research. This time, however, The Machine told me:
ChatGPT As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021, there weren't any widely available websites or apps specifically designed to detect AI-generated text like ChatGPT. However, the landscape of AI and NLP tools and services is constantly evolving, so it's possible that new tools or platforms may have emerged since then.Continue reading
To contradict the accompanying photo, this story takes place during UNhappy Hour. A bar, yes. Happy, no. This tale has one of the more disgusting scenes I’ve ever written– in a good, horror story kind of way. You’ll know it when you read it. And you can read it at Idle Ink.
Blink-Ink #52 is out. If that wasn’t exciting enough, my 50-word microfiction “Behind Schedule” is in it. 25 more tiny tales are also shoeboxed in this peewee publication. Subscribe today, that way you won’t miss out on a single mini masterpiece.
