Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: ChatGPT and what it knows/doesn't know

[mildred_of_midgard]

Well, of course!

This is amazing. I told it to write me a story, and it gave me a history lesson (mostly, not entirely accurate), and then I told it to "add more dialogue", and it ADDED MORE DIALOGUE! Now it reads like fiction.

Update: I just tried "make them more ruthless" on Charles XII and Görtz, AND IT DID. They're now plotting to kidnap family members as leverage.

Okay, wow, I need to stop and get back to German reading (I'm on a roll this week), but holy cow.

...I just told it "Gian Gastone was gay" and it changed "beautiful women" to "beautiful men." I'm dying.

Re: ChatGPT and what it knows/doesn't know

[cahn]

i KNOOOOOOQQW I need to work, or at the very least write enough on my Yuletide fic to decide whether I'm defaulting or not, but playing with this is so fun :D (I did ask it some Yuletide research, though -- it got a lot of what I was asking (historical agriculture questions) wrong, but in ways that at least gave me hooks to do google searches...