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Just for kicks, I asked 3.5 Sonnet to write some sentences that didn’t exist in its training data. I googled the output and sure enough they appear to be unique. Most were semi meaningless strings of words, but I thought this one was quite poetic:

“Vintage umbrellas hosted philosophical debates about whether raindrops dream of becoming oceans or if puddles remember their cloudborn youth.”




Oooh that is very surprisingly nice! "cloudborn" is a great word there, how lovely, it slows you down at the right moment for a little explosion then at "youth". I wasn't expecting a genuinely excellent answer here :)

So it turns out then that the trick may be to find a way to get them to avoid aping the oceans of human mediocrity they've been spoonfed! Funny, it's the very same reason some poets go off and live in the woods.




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