[xg15]

To be fair though, that's the poem it produced when the entire prompt were the words "ode to a space lizard".

It's like with describing a commission: If you just give basic info, then there is a lot left for the artist to guess, and they might be inclined to err on the safe side.

I often got better results when I included more info in the prompt.

E.g., here that could be: What is a space lizard? What's so amazing about it? What should the general emotion of the poem be? Should it be of some particular style? etc etc.

[dale_glass]

True, I was intentionally trying to make it do something weird to see how it'd fail. But it's not just a lack of information. A tail might help with swimming but won't propel you through the void. And "anything deployed" is awkward. And what's an "intergalactic norm"? And so on.

I think more information would result in something more interesting, but I don't think it'd fix the problem that some of the concepts used just don't add up, because it's not actually a thinking machine, just very fancy statistics that work surprisingly well.

[LordDragonfang]

>A tail might help with swimming but won't propel you through the void.

No offense, but I feel like if you're criticizing ai-written poetry for a lack of absolute realism, maybe you're the one that doesn't quite grok poetry. Next you'll be telling Poe that ravens can't actually enunciate human speech.

[Fatnino]

So the skill lies in knowing how to make a good prompt.

Sounds like human work.