Using ChatGPT for creative purposes

I was having ChatGPT do some anagrams for me on a username I use and I also had it do the same on ‘Nikolai Tesla’. At first, it just generated 10 replies, but easy enough to just ask for 50. That was pretty solid…it didn’t break a sweat however I did get a Creating 50 unique and meaningful combinations from those letters is quite challenging warning. So then, on a whim, I asked it to write a story with only the letters in ‘Nikolai Tesla’ (note, it’s not 100% perfect - while the majority of letters are in the name, a few aren’t, but with lower frequency):

 In a silent lake, a lone koi listens. A tale as old as soil itself. A tale of a lonesome lake isle, an isle so still, so silent. A stoik koi, Aiko, sails in still lake, as alike as an isle. Aiko’s tale is akin to no tales. Aiko is alone, no kin, no ties, no clan.

 Aiko, a silk-like koi, slinks into the lake’s inlet. A stain like ink leaks into the salt sea. A sea lion, Ike, also alone, tails Aiko. Ike likes Aiko. Aiko sees Ike. An instant link, a tie, a kin.

 Aiko and Ike, koi and sea lion, alike in isolation, now sail in alliance. Aiko’s loneliness, like Ike’s, lasts no longer. Together, akin to stars in skies, they link tails, a tale to last as eons last.

Not bad at all. I rather enjoyed that.

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