“GPT-3 Creative Fiction § ’’It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Blurst Of Times’‽’”, 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.

Using a quote from the Simpsons where Montgomery Burns looks at the novel written by a monkey on a typewriter56 gives many different responses. Instead of a Simpsons fanfic continuation I got a history of Las Vegas, what looks like a dictionary, a comedy news website imitation, a really dark Harry Potter fanfic, and a sermon on the Book of Acts. I think what GPT-3 is doing is assuming that “blurst” is a typo for ‘worst’ and proceeding on the assumption that it’s just a Dickens quote, which is so cliche it’s been used almost everywhere and so almost any completion is appropriate: