“GPT-3 Creative Fiction § ‘But For Me It Was Tuesday’”, Gwern2020-06-19 (, , , , )⁠:

Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors.

Can GPT-3 write variants of the Street Fighter “But For Me It Was Tuesday” trope? I iterated through a variety of prompts, building up a set of variants, and fixing a few GPT-3 attempts, trying to get good variants.

The overall impression I get is that, aside from an understandable tendency to write TVTropes entry-style completions, the situation is similar to the Tom Swifties: GPT-3 can learn the format perfectly and can match up the speaker and the kind of day/action, but then it generally whiffs on coming up with a specific day which might make it clever43, typically falling back to the snowclone ending of “it was Tuesday”—which is reasonable, but less creative & witty than I had hoped.