The wonderful world of ChatGPT!! . . . and "humor"?

[JW Insider]

I pay $20 a month to OpenAI to play with their 4.0+ version of ChatGPT. It's not really an expense because I still do some remote consulting for a tech company in Ohio. 

Today, I decided to try out its ability to draw pictures on demand. I wanted a picture of a man about to curse because he just hit his thumb with a hammer, and I want his wife, to put her fingers in the "ears" of their pet parrot, so that the parrot doesn't pick up any bad words to repeat.

So here goes:

Prompt: 

I need a New Yorker style cartoon containing man hammering a nail in the wall and accidentally hitting his thumb. At the same time a woman, presumably his wife, is standing next to a tall perch where a parrot appears oblivious and she, the wife, is putting her fingers in the ears of a parrot.

 Not terrible, but it didn't get the right idea about the parrot's ears being covered.

So I try again:

 

[JW Insider]

Me: Keep the same picture, but have the woman holding the index finger of each hand at both sides of the parrot's head as if she is trying to cover the parrot's ears to keep the parrot from hearing whatever the man is saying.

I've adjusted the scene according to your instructions. The woman is now holding her index fingers at both sides of the parrot's head, attempting to cover its ears.

Not quite. So I try again:

[JW Insider]

Me: 

I like the black and white version better, and the parrot should be back on a perch which should be just like the first picture you drew, but with the pole a bit shorter so that the women is just slightly taller than the perch, and can more easily put her fingers at each side of the parrots head, but touching the parrots head at each side so it appears that she is trying to stop the parrot from hearing

[JW Insider]

Me: No, if you remember what you drew in the very first picture. The man should have just hit his finger or thumb with a hammer while trying to hammer a nail in the wall. The woman should be next to the parrot. She should be pointing her left index finger at the parrot's ear, and she should point her right finger at the parrots other ear. But her index fingers should be close enough to be touching the parrot.

[TrueTomHarley]

Well, I suppose it’s okay for the open club but I wouldn’t put it in the closed one.

[TrueTomHarley]

Me: Draw a normal human response of a person monitoring George 88 and JWI going at it for days and days in the open club over some point of chronology that neither yields an inch on.

ChatGBT: Okay, I’ve considered your request and I believe the following fills the bill

[George88]

Please reconsider, Tom, I implore you, as it sets a negative example if you hang yourself, lol!

[Many Miles]

On 3/22/2024 at 1:09 PM, JW Insider said:

Not terrible, but it didn't get the right idea about the parrot's ears being covered.

And a bird impaled to the wall.

[Pudgy]

I believe Chat GBT is having trouble with the word “covered”. 

Try this: “Draw a black an white New Yorker style cartoon with a man in bib overalls facing a wall, who has just hit his thumb with a hammer and is screaming  special character profanity in a text balloon with a woman behind him dressed in a housedress and apron with her two index fingers touching the ear holes of a stupid looking parrot on a perch”

Alternately, a non-sequiter style cartoon of the Delorean from “Back to the Future” in an abandoned shopping mall parking lot, with Dr. Emmett Brown slamming his hand in the car door, and exclaiming in a text balloon “Great Scott! and random fluctuations at 1.21 gigawatts in the spacetime continuum!!”, with Marty McFly watching in horror.

[Pudgy]

The logic has to be linear …. and possibly entered step by step.

[JW Insider]

I might just try to get my money back. The parrot in the first picture is undoubtedly responding only to the difference between the prompt and the actual cartoon.

[Pudgy]

Try the additive process