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Can GPT-3 make a valid point?

Good writers have something to say, and they don't waste words saying it.

Someone just good with language is an editor. Or a babbler. Or a rapper.

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Some of the most talented and pertinent writers of our time are rappers. I would encourage you not to dismiss them so readily.

Yes. But they are also good writers, no? After the premise that good writers have something to say, it should be clear I am referring to the "just rapper" rapper.

Well that seems awfully close minded. “Good writers” are those who can engage their audience, your perspective of a “Good writer” is simply a reflection of you as a target audience. No need to put everyone in your box.

How do you engage your audience without giving them anything? With just word play? And are we all forgetting the context of GPT-3 and the post I was replying to?

Also Jay-Z isn't every rapper. I'm pretty sure even Jay-Z would agree most rap is not very substantive or saying anything new. It's cookie cutter.

I do believe you, in this exact order, missed my point and then proved it...

So your point is most cookie cutter rap is good writing?

If engagement is the new measure of good writing, then we are lost. Click bait is engagement. Tabloid material is engagement. Fox vs CNN and political trigger pieces are all engagement. None of it should be considered good writing.

How do you feel about poets?

A good poet has something to say, and wastes no words saying it.

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