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ChatGPT really impressed me on this one:

Sing, O Muse, of the Chucking of Wood

Sing, O Muse, of the stout-hearted woodchuck, Dweller of hills, whom men call groundhog, Whose paws, though small, could hurl mighty timbers, If fate had gifted him such labor divine.

Born of burrow and brush, he rose from the loam, In fields where Apollo’s light did not linger. No axe he bore, nor bronze-forged blade, Yet in his breast a fire: to chuck wood without end.

Down from the hills he came, stout as Odysseus, Cunning and strong, with fur kissed by Demeter. The trees did tremble at his gaze, And even old oak whispered, “Beware!”

“Would he chuck?” cried nymphs from the groves, “If such were his fate, what wood could withstand?” Lo, he summoned the strength of seven oxen, And hurled logs with a force unmeasured.

Seven hundred pounds of timber he cast, Each arc a hymn to muscle and will. Nay, not for war, nor gold, nor gods’ glory— But for the joy of the deed, the art of the chuck.

Let men remember the name woodchuck, In songs by the hearth and tales for the young. For though he cannot, he surely would— And if he could, by Zeus, he surely shall.

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esafak a day ago | parent | next [-]

A stupendously good answer. What prompt and version of chatGPT?

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regnull a day ago | parent | next [-]

4o. The prompt is literally "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?". It asked me if I want a poetic answer, and I've requested Homer.

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cess11 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I find it disturbing, like if Homer or Virgil had a stroke or some neurodegenerative disease and is now doing rubbish during rehabilitation.

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loloquwowndueo a day ago | parent [-]

Maybe they would write like that if they existed today. Like the old “if Mozart was born in the 21st century he’d be doing trash metal”

	▲	cess11 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thrash, not "trash". Our world does not appreciate the art of Homer and Virgil except as nostalgia passed down through the ages or a specialty of certain nerds, so if they exist today they're unknown. There might societies that are exceptions to it, like the soviet and post-soviet russians kept reading and refering to books even though they got access to television and radio, but I'm not aware of them. Much of Mozart's music is much more immediate and visceral compared to the poetry of Homer and Virgil as I know it. And he was distinctly modern, a freemason even. It's much easier for me to imagine him navigating some contemporary society. Edit: Perhaps one could see a bit of Homer in the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan, but he did not have the discipline of verse, or much of any literary discipline at all, though he insisted mercilessly on writing an epic so vast that he died without finishing it.

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ijidak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That is actually an amazing answer. Better than anything I think I would get from a human. Lol.