ChatGPT co-writes a stand-up routine on "Cancel Culture"

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For the past week or so, I’ve been spending a lot of time with ChatGPT, giving it all sorts of prompts. I’ve collaborated with it on poetry, used it to help me brainstorm and answer questions, tried to challenge its “logic,” and more. Here, I’ve decided to instruct it to write a stand-up routine for me via a series of prompt that include rewrites and redirects, as well as edits and re-arrangements by myself. Ultimately, ChatGPT and myself co-wrote the resulting bit below:

“Cancel culture” is kind of like being in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. You can’t get them all, even if you tried. But people sure keep trying.

And just when you think you’ve ran out of moles to whack, they get another one. If you’re a comedian, it's like living in a comedy minefield.

Now, don't get me wrong, there are definitely some people out there who deserve to be called out for their actions, but sometimes it can feel like sneezing the wrong way can get you trending on Twitter. And n…