“Table Mountain standing tall, like a jol; she’s seen it all.”
A South African asked Chatgpt to write a poem about Cape Town using local slang, much to the amusement of many locals.
Cape Town, South Africa (28 November 2024) — It’s a curious time to be alive. Robots are real and posing with celebrities, no one knows when a selection of our species might move to Mars and Artificial Intelligence is writing poems about parts of South Africa—yes, Chatgpt is now a local poet. Indeed, this chapter of the history books is certainly going to be one where fact proved stranger than fiction.
While we, as a team of very human writers, still prefer poetry written by other very human writers, Chatgpt made a good enough go to get local nods of approval, a few thousand giggles, and even a resounding acknowledgement that this strain of AI can come to the braai (read: it’s poem earned some …