I asked ChatGPT to rewrite "American Pie" to be more contemporary...

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31. A guy from my office showed me what one of those programs could do

He fed some of his own writing into a program, asked it to write a speech of such and such a length about the subject, first being serious, then injecting light humor, then with some irony. Each time, it came out different, incorporating his instructions perfectly.

I had to admit it was impressive, but what if he had instead fed some of MY writing into the program, told it to write a three paragraph post praising the Trump administration, saying I had “seen the light,” and was renouncing my Democratic Party membership? THAT is where it gets dark and scary. It must be a generational thing. I am 73, he is about 40. I am used to writing everything myself—my emails, my novel, my song parodies, even my own DU posts, typos and all. He apparently uses the program all the time. I don’t have a clue how to use it, or even how to get it onto my computer. Maybe this the wave of the future. So far, it’s not MY future. If that changes, I’m sure there will be a reason for it. I just can’t imagine what that might be.