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There was an old text generator program from the 80s called "Travesty":

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/50200-travesty

That's basically all ChatGPT is being used for here, so I think it's OK. It's not like a fake user, or "I ran the question through the chatbot and now I'll show you the output because I have no idea myself".

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Holy wow just yesterday I was toying with Travesty. I had no idea it existed back then and only found it recently when I went page by page through Macintosh Garden's whole database, so it's great to see someone mention it!

Source (or source of an earlier version at least), in BASIC:

https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_10-07_1985-07_Computers...

I couldn't find the Nov 1984 Pascal version, but like they say, Basic is easier for working with strings.

That's basically all ChatGPT is being used for here, so I think it's OK.

Don't bother arguing, it's a religious thing at this point.

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