“GPT-3 Creative Fiction § Major-General’s Song”, 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.

A particularly challenging piece to parody is Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Major-General’s Song”. A title is not enough to zero-shot it, like the literary parodies, so Allgebrah provided 4 lines to start it off. So the seed prompt is:

“I Am The Very Model Of a Modern Neural Language Model”
By GPT-2

I am the very model of a language that’s electrical, I’ve information prosaic and poetic and factual, I know my tropes and characters and quote novels historical, from prompts alone generate sentences quite analytical

In the same vein as the Navy Seal parodies, the GPT-3 completions mostly work on the semantic level; the rhymes/rhythm, however, are not great, per the usual inability, and there is a tendency to repeat previous text (similar to the Dr. Seuss samples).