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Thread #172041 Message #4162767
Posted By: DaveRo
17-Jan-23 - 12:35 PM
Thread Name: ChatGPT as a songwriter
Subject: RE: ChatGPT as a songwriter
It's in the nature of GPT - Generative Pre-Training - that it will produce language based on the texts it been trained on. So it can produce 'natural sounding' language - similar to what it has analysed. It's been used for computer code because well-written code tends to re-use constructions that have withstood testing and use. You don't normally want to write novel or unusual computer code - there are no prizes for originality!
Songwiting is not all inspiration. I recently watched an interview with Stephen Sondheim about how he came up with rhymes - he used a thesaurus and a rhyming dictionary. (The interviewer was shocked!)