Surprisingly, yes. I want to say “yes” with no caveats, but I am ethically bound to point out that I may have changed a few of them. But if I did, it was inspired directly from what it came up with.
The way it works is, there’s something called ABC notation, and Gwern found a big ass-database of Irish folk songs. It has a “title” field along with tempo, ID, etc. I would fill in what key I wanted, give it the first chord, and let it go. (If you don’t give it the chord, it generates ABC songs that are all kind of boring piano pieces with no background chords. It was amazing how much difference that made.)
So, not only did it choose the song names, but it couldn’t not choose a song name. It’s the only thing it knew. Its whole world was Irish ABC folk music, and as far as it was concerned, the title was as important as the notes. It couldn’t know it wasn’t.
Ah, I figured out what had been bothering me. I’m pretty sure I chose “For Ireland!” and possibly Blackbird, but e.g. Crossing the Channel was a GPT original, I believe. I was aiming to make it feel like an oldschool FF3 type game, so For Ireland was the battle song, Blackbird was the name of the airship you’d make your daring escape on at the end, Marco’s shadow was the assassin team hired by the empire to take Marco out, etc.
The way it works is, there’s something called ABC notation, and Gwern found a big ass-database of Irish folk songs. It has a “title” field along with tempo, ID, etc. I would fill in what key I wanted, give it the first chord, and let it go. (If you don’t give it the chord, it generates ABC songs that are all kind of boring piano pieces with no background chords. It was amazing how much difference that made.)
So, not only did it choose the song names, but it couldn’t not choose a song name. It’s the only thing it knew. Its whole world was Irish ABC folk music, and as far as it was concerned, the title was as important as the notes. It couldn’t know it wasn’t.
Ah, I figured out what had been bothering me. I’m pretty sure I chose “For Ireland!” and possibly Blackbird, but e.g. Crossing the Channel was a GPT original, I believe. I was aiming to make it feel like an oldschool FF3 type game, so For Ireland was the battle song, Blackbird was the name of the airship you’d make your daring escape on at the end, Marco’s shadow was the assassin team hired by the empire to take Marco out, etc.