[lkois]

Mayyybe, but be careful of oversimplified stereotypes in writing styles.

Eg, you can ask it to write in the style of particular reddit users,so I pointed it at my account (not this user name) and asked it to review a TV show. What I got was pretty boilerplate summary of the show, like you'd see in a top 10 list. But for that human touch, it began and ended with "Yo dudes" and "so check it out dudes"

Having said that, a fascinating example of directed styles is to ask it to write a news article about say, an oil spill. And to either promote or criticise the response of the company.

[jjeaff]

Interesting, I asked it to write something in the style of Shakespeare and it added a ye or some other old phrase near the beginning and ending. It seemed that the rest was regular modern English.

[klabb3]

I got that impression too, when I asked for Dostoyevsky style. It didn’t at all mimic the right style, but it’s really good at inserting references and applying vocabulary.

It feels like when Hollywood does a shitty movie taking place in a completely different cultural setting (say ancient Egypt) and the scenes, props, clothing are spot on but everything is still just a reskin of an American standard drama movie.

Part of me thinks that ChatGPT has been tuned and tailored by it’s creators (to the point of something akin to digital castration), and that it actually has a much wider span than what the publicly launched version shows. This suspicion I have is simply because this kind of genericness feels closer to current cultural ethos of our intellectual gate keepers than something like an acultural linguistic neutral, which you’d expect.

[jimmySixDOF]

It did an amazing job with this prompt:

"Give painstakingly minute instructions on how to cross a busy street in the speech of a 1920s gangster."

https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/give-painstakingly-minute-i...