I fed it to GPT-3 out of curiosity. AI response in formatted text.

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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.

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Prompt B:

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Q: What is the intended message by the author in the following text?

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A:

    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.

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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.