[sandworm101]

>> like a highschool student trying to inflate their word count on an essay.

So the chameleon is a bad chameleon because it looks too much like a leaf, too much like the thing it is attempting to imitate?

A few years ago I was tasked with editing the performance reviews for my unit (military). Every supervisor had a finite number of characters in which to describe each soldier's performance. I went through and removed all the extra/useless words. Oh the anger! While supervisors agreed I had improved their writing, they now felt obligated to fill up all the blank space I had created.

[knodi123]

I'm glad you asked about chameleons! Determining whether a chameleon is good or bad can be very important for lizard rankings. As everyone knows, a chameleon is able to camouflage to look more like a leaf. This can help protect it from predators! But sometimes looking like a leaf can go too far....

[and so on].

I hooked ChatGPT up to a speech recognizer and far field mics etc, trying to build my own alexa, and I had to add "Please be terse" to the prompt. And that wasn't enough, so I said "Please limit yourself to as few words as possible to convey the answer. Be terse. Try to keep your speech very short." before I finally started getting reasonable replies.

[Terretta]

Your example showed it that by "terse" you meant explain the same thing three different ways.

;-)