First post! See what BingAI makes of Donald Trump's 4th Indictment here.
Hey folks!
For our very first post, I asked BingAI to, and I quote, "write a poem with 7 verses in ABAB rhyme scheme about Donald Trump's fourth indictment, being the one in Georgia[.]" It got the poem and indictment part down perfectly, but totally brushed over the 7 verses & ABAB rhyme scheme.
I've taken the liberty of formatting BingAI's poem in a more readable way.
1 He thought he was the king of the land
2 But he lost the election fair and square
3 He tried to overturn the result in Georgia
4 But he only got himself in trouble there
5 He called the secretary of state and asked him to find
6 Some votes that would make him win
7 He lied to the lawmakers and the public
8 But he could not hide his sin
9 He conspired with his allies and lawyers
10 To create fake documents and electors
11 He harassed the election workers and officials
12 But he could not escape the prosecutors
13 He faced a grand jury in Fulton County
14 That charged him with 41 counts of crime
15 He became the first president to be indicted four times
16 But he still claimed he was a victim of a witch-hunt
17 He faced charges of racketeering and solicitation
18 Of making false statements and breaching election equipment
19 He faced the wrath of the law and the people
20 But he still refused to repent
21 He dragged his case for years and years
22 But he could not delay justice forever
23 He finally went to trial in Atlanta
24 But he could not sway the jury in his favor
25 He was convicted and sentenced to prison
26 But he still maintained his innocence
27 He appealed and appealed until he ran out of options
28 But he could not change his sentence
29 This is the story of Donald Trump’s fourth indictment
30 The one that sealed his fate in Georgia
31 The one that showed him that no one is above the law
32 The one that ended his saga
The news articles that BingAI claimed to get its sources from are
1) Trump’s Fourth Indictment: Five Ways Georgia May Be Different - Bloomberg
2) Former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference indictment, annotated - CNN
3) Donald Trump Receives Georgia Blow as 4th Indictment 'On the Horizon' (newsweek.com)
4) Trump's 4th indictment heightens political uncertainty in Georgia, U.S., expert says - CW Atlanta (cbsnews.com)
5) Eight unflinching cartoons on Trump’s historic fourth indictment (msn.com)
Although BingAI failed to consider my 7 verse and ABAB requests, it actually does quite a few interesting things in a poetic sense. Note that the first 7 verses have every other line (starting with the first) begin in "He". It's a good repetition that has a lot going for it, but also is dragged down by some inconsistency. Line 23 breaks the pattern of having "He" being accompanied by a verb, and line 27 repeats the same verb twice—certainly not a sin within poetry, but a little weak when the word in question is "appealed".
Another fun repetition it seems BingAI tried its hand at was starting even lines with "But". While it's not exactly one of the most artful repetitions one could select for a poem, it reminds me of the poems I used to write when I was younger. Of course, some of the strength of this repetition is sacrificed because some of the 2nd lines of verses are mere continuations of the sentence that was begun by the line prior to them.
The last verse plays with more repetition in the form "The one". It's an interesting premise, but the last line sticks out like a sore thumb in its brevity. This isn't specifically about the last verse, but some of the lines make me wonder whether BingAI really understands what a rhyme is, or whether it somehow forgot the input I requested of it. A few of the verses, for whatever reason, express ABCB rhyme scheme, but this is never maintained.
My findings on the poetic nature of all of this is that BingAI understands well the concept of patterns, but not that you need to continue using them.
On the other hand, can we talk about what the poem actually says? Line 24 is talking about a potential future event as if it already happened—Donald Trump has not been convicted of any crimes thus far. And the verse right after that is pure fantasy. None of these things happened, and no newspaper would report that they did. Even the 8 cartoons never implied a conviction (though some played around with the concept of arrest, which, to be clear, are not really the same thing). Having read every article that was cited, I can confidently say that either BingAI picked up on some other source and kept silent about it, hallucinated entirely, or misinterpreted potential future occurrences to have already happened.
That's all for our first post! Hope you enjoyed me analyzing both the rhyming and the news as BingAI sees it!