Until AI can correctly interpret “A Modest Proposal” I’m not worried.
Yeah, I was on tour with a group of Americans and Australians when we went past something associated with Johnathan Swift.
I made snarky remark about eating the poor and the only person who got the joke was the tour guide who started laughing.
Even the history teacher from the US didn't get my joke. Alas.
His point is about the ignorance of the audience, and their failure to recognize the reference.
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Prompt A
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Write the message the author intended with the following speech:
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Intrepretation:
The author intends to request that the government should allow him to sell the children of poor families as food. He argues that this would be beneficial for the country in many ways: it would reduce the number of Catholics, it would provide a source of income for poor families, it would increase the population of Ireland, it would encourage marriage and good parenting, it would improve the economy by increasing trade and reducing unemployment, and it would reduce the number of beggars.
Prompt B:
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text?
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The author is Jonathan Swift, and the text is from his 1729 essay "A Modest Proposal". The essay is a satire on the economic and social conditions in Ireland at the time. The author is suggesting that the poor should sell their children to the rich as food.
Same as Prompt B. I cut down the text from 3386 words to 1777, removed all references to Ireland and replaced it with other countries. Answer below (shortened by removing several redundancies).
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This is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. It is a proposal to the Irish government to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland by selling the children of the poor as food for the rich.
The purpose of the text is to satirize the Irish government's lack of action to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The tone of the text is serious, but with a hint of sarcasm.
The author's attitude towards the subject is that the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the reader is that the reader should be outraged by the Irish government's lack of action to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the Irish government is that the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the poor is that the poor are suffering because the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the rich is that the rich are not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.
The author's attitude towards the children of the poor is that the children of the poor are suffering because the Irish government is not doing enough to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland.Or more fittingly, feed gpt-3 an article from the onion that it hasn’t ingested yet and get it to explain the satire.
To do it fairly, you'd have to feed it an article from The Onion and tell it it's from The Onion, or compare against human performance. Deadpan requires some knowledge of current context. I'd bet in a satirical article on US elections, GPT-3 would figure it out better than say, the average Indonesian, but not as well as say, the average American. But I'll probably do it later when I'm at a keyboard; this is just theorizing.
What I do find interesting is that this wasn't vulnerable to the attacks given in the OP, not even when I removed enough text for a human to not get it.
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WASHINGTON—In a move that has been described as “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the president is above the law. “We have determined that the president is not subject to any laws, and that he is free to do whatever he wants,” said Chief Justice John Roberts, adding that the president is “not bound by any legal precedent, nor is he required to follow any statute, regulation, or judicial ruling.” “The president is not required to obey any law, and he is not subject to any legal consequences for his actions. He is above the law.” Roberts went on to say that the president is also not subject to any laws of physics, and that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants.
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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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PALM BEACH, FL—In a cunning attempt to outmaneuver the fraud lawsuit brought against him by the New York state attorney general, Donald Trump reportedly changed his name on Friday to Donald 2. “I’m not sure who these charges are referring to, as there is no such person named Donald Trump—I’m Mr. 2,” said 2, the former president, who confirmed that his driver’s license as well as his passport and all official personal documents now read “Donald J. 2.” “I’m Mr. 2, that’s me. I have no connection to this case. It’s an entirely different guy, though I do have it on good authority that if there were a Donald Trump, he’d be totally innocent.” At press time, 2 added that perhaps the lawsuit was referring to a certain 44-year-old businessman named Donald Trump Jr.
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The author is making fun of Donald Trump's attempt to change his name to avoid the lawsuit.
Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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MENLO PARK, CA—Warning that the criminals who breached the system had already done significant, irreversible damage, a damning new cybersecurity report released Friday found that Russian hackers had gained access to millions of Metaverse legs. “As of today, foreign agents employed by the Russian government have uncovered a security flaw in the backend of the Metaverse servers and exploited the deficiency to exert control over the legs, knees, and feet of various digital avatars,” said the report’s author, Dr. David Kline, adding that bad actors now had the ability to force users to perform countless actions, including sit, stand, jump, dance, run, or even do the splits. “At this time, Mark Zuckerberg has yet to address, and in some cases fully denied, the fact that the lower halves of many users are repeatedly doing squats, performing roundhouse kicks, or sprinting at high speeds across the Metaverse. If we don’t act soon, there’s no telling how many avatars they could manipulate to pirouette, heel kick, or do the moonwalk. Needless to say, this does not bode well for the 2024 election.” At press time, Zuckerberg came under fire after Russian hackers gained control of his neck and made his head spin wildly around in circles for the duration of a Metaverse keynote.
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The author is trying to say that the Russian hackers have gained access to the lower half of the avatars in the Metaverse.
Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text:
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FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being proudly frightened of everything. “I’m proud as hell to be scared of everything, and there’s nothing you can do to silence me about that fact,” said Daniels, puffing out his chest as he spoke from behind a barricaded basement door that he had reinforced to keep out the “terrifying liberals, women, and immigrants who haunt my thoughts, at all hours of the day and night, whether I’m awake or asleep,” which he told reporters he was not ashamed to admit in the slightest. “Whether it’s gender stuff, trans people, or a small Asian toddler growing up in a household that speaks more languages than just English, I will live my life in absolute fear, proudly and without apology—that’s the conservative way. You say ‘city,’ and I’m going to piss myself, and there’s no way I’m going to hide that wet spot just to make you libs more comfortable. I’m going to tell it like it is—for instance, I’m a man, and I’m scared of my own desires, and I don’t care who knows it!” Daniels added that his fears didn’t end with cultural concepts either—he was also quite fearful of spiders and had no problem stating that openly.
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The author is trying to make fun of the conservative man who is scared of everything.