“GPT-3 Nonfiction § ASCII Art”, Gwern2020-06-19 (, )⁠:

Nonfiction writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, testing logic, commonsense reasoning, anagrams, PDF/OCR cleaning, creative nonfiction, etc

GPT-3 can’t really do ASCII art, which comes as little surprise to me given the relative rarity of ASCII art these days, the difficulty of understanding what it’s art of (even looked at in 2D), and the possibility that most ASCII art was filtered out of the training dataset. AK got a little better results by prompting using just ASCII art.

Per a suggestion, I tried a ‘contest’ prompt: