it produced cliche because of the cliche quality of the prompt. You can’t expect it to be original when you’ve asked it for a tiresome combination of genre and a canonical work.
If the outputs are boring it ain’t chatgpt at fault…
If the outputs are boring it ain’t chatgpt at fault…
But I completely agree with you: it’s often spitting out boring stuff. And yes, it makes almost everything up based on language statistics and similarities.
Perhaps, we are just in a hype cycle? There are lots of specialty tools and bots available based on GPT-3 customized for different tasks. Complaining that ChatGPT or Bing+ aren’t equally suited for every task gets tiresome. Especially if more than 2/3 of the examples simply follow the pattern „junk in - junk out“.
It is assessing the quality of the output as if a human had made it. Most of human writing is cliche. Expecting it to produce good output is, as you say, a matter of prompt engineering.