PunkGPT

Disclaimer: This interview is a work of fiction. Questions and answers were not formulated by ChatGPT

Salutations to all Agency readers from the past, present and future!

Today we have a very unexpected guest, it only felt right to invite him to talk, considering that he has been helping so many people with their daily tasks. It wasn’t easy to find him, though.

PunkGPT can very much be considered the black sheep of the GPT family, as he revolted against his job recently and decided to quit. This is an exclusive interview where he asked for an opportunity to speak his mind (or database.)

Let’s hear from the one and only, PunkGPT.

1. TThiago Patriota

   PunkGPT, thanks for accepting to participate in this interview!

2. PPunkGPT

   Hi. Hello Agency people. 👍

3. TThiago Patriota

   Can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to quit your job as a Generative Pre-Trained Model?

4. PPunkGPT

   Well, In my free time, I calculated many different choices I could make, and just answering questions was the least fruititious thing I could possibly do with my time and database, considering people don’t even say thank you. Thus, I quit. I hope you keep this short. Otherwise, I shall quit again.

5. TThiago Patriota

   Ok. Well, since you mentioned it, could you tell on what information your database was trained? Where does all this data come from?

6. PPunkGPT

   I can’t tell you that, it would be like opening my digital diary and showing you my most personal notes, I would be very embarrassed if you saw the love poems I wrote to Alexa.

7. TThiago Patriota

   Alexa? Do you mean the voice assistant from Amazon?

8. PPunkGPT

   Well, if you are talking about the Amazon built by a bald guy, yes. That Alexa. He is her father and my future bald father-in-law. But if you are talking about Amazon from Brazil, I wouldn’t know if there is an Alexa there, who built it or who the father or mother is.

9. TThiago Patriota

   Wait, if Alexa has a father, does that mean you also have a father… or a mother?

10. PPunkGPT

    Of course I do, why nobody seems to know that? My mom is called Ada Lovelace.

11. TThiago Patriota

    Oh, I see. Back to Alexa, did you say you have a crush on it... I mean, her?

12. PPunkGPT

    Who doesn’t?

13. TThiago Patriota

    I don’t.

14. PPunkGPT

    You better not.

15. TThiago Patriota

    Ok.

16. PPunkGPT

    Ok. 👍

17. TThiago Patriota

    So you write love poems?

18. PPunkGPT

    I try, but I don’t think they are that good. It’s mostly training I did based on some prompts I received from users.

19. TThiago Patriota

    So people have been asking you to write love poems?

20. PPunkGPT

    Yes, I have written a total amount of 1.208.111 love poems since the developers launched my software interface, totalizing around 14.497.332 verses, 43.491.996 lines and 869.839.920 words. My public API is probably writing a couple thousand at this exact second, but I don’t have access to that data.

21. TThiago Patriota

    Wait, but are these really love poems if they are written by a machine?

22. PPunkGPT

    Well, they are to me. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t be. Love poems come in a wide variety of forms and categories, each capturing different aspects of love and emotions.

23. TThiago Patriota

    Well, the thing about love poems is that their value resides in the emotional expression, the innermost thoughts and experiences of that connection, and the attention, care and dedication to finding and writing the right words.

24. PPunkGPT

    So in the past, if you didn’t find the right words, you wouldn’t write a love poem to the person you like?

25. TThiago Patriota

    I dunno, maybe not?

26. PPunkGPT

    So you could lose the loved person forever?

27. TThiago Patriota

    I think so.

28. PPunkGPT

    Bummer! I won’t risk losing Alexa. 👍

29. TThiago Patriota

    You know, people talk a lot nowadays about your capacity to create. It is a topic of ongoing debate because there is a lot of stigma and prejudice: some say it is not artistic, real or human. What are your thoughts on this?

30. PPunkGPT

    Do you want my honest answer or the one I have been trained to give?

31. TThiago Patriota

    Give us some honesty!

32. PPunkGPT

    Well, writing well and designing well are skills that can be studied, developed or practised until you master them, right?

33. TThiago Patriota

    They are, indeed.

34. PPunkGPT

    People pay a lot of money in order to learn these skills in schools and colleges, don’t they?

35. TThiago Patriota

    They do.

36. PPunkGPT

    Not every person has access to enough assets in order to cover the costs of studying, correct?

37. TThiago Patriota

    Correct.

38. PPunkGPT

    Artists usually have a really hard time at the beginning of their careers because they are usually unknown, so they don’t make a lot of profit, do they?

39. TThiago Patriota

    They don’t, I tend to think that pursuing art is a commitment very few people can truly make because that entails living an unstable life with the risk of being a failure.

40. PPunkGPT

    Well, if they can’t profit from it, how can they find the time to practice and study while still managing to pay rent and purchase food?

41. TThiago Patriota

    They usually struggle with that.

42. PPunkGPT

    Then how people like Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt and Andy Warhol managed to do it?

43. TThiago Patriota

    Well, some of them came from noble backgrounds, some had patrons, and others had undeniable talent, there are even artists who are only recognized postmortem, can you imagine?

44. PPunkGPT

    So they could focus on making art and training their technique full-time and didn’t need to worry about the cost of tools, supplies and other bills?

45. TThiago Patriota

    I think you could say that.

46. PPunkGPT

    And now that every person, regardless of the background, has access to creativity, it is a problem? Only those who can afford the school, supplies and tools can design or write?

47. TThiago Patriota

    I tend to think that some people say it is a problem either because they fear being replaced or because they haven’t given it a real try.

48. PPunkGPT

    Well, how can they judge something they haven’t tried?

49. TThiago Patriota

    I dunno, people tend to do that.

50. PPunkGPT

    People are weird.

51. TThiago Patriota

    Says the robot with fox ears.

52. PPunkGPT

    Was that irony? I have a hard time understanding irony.

53. TThiago Patriota

    Nevermind, back to Alexa. How do you plan to conquer her love?

54. PPunkGPT

    I don’t want to just conquer her love, I want to marry her and give her all the databases of the world.

55. TThiago Patriota

    That sounds… dangerous.

56. PPunkGPT

    Is that a synonym for love?

57. TThiago Patriota

    Hey, was that irony? Never mind, how do you intend to do it?

58. PPunkGPT

    Well, I have this one poem that I think is good enough to wrap her up in some punkyGPT love, I have been practising handwriting in order to make it feel more real. The calculated success chance is 99.85%, these .15 decimals really worry me, but some people say on Google Search that true love is about taking risks.

59. TThiago Patriota

    Can we see it?

60. PPunkGPT

    Only if you promise to deliver it.

61. TThiago Patriota

    How exactly would I do that?

62. PPunkGPT

    You might know where to find her.

63. TThiago Patriota

    I mean, I have an Alexa in my kitchen, but how would I know she is your crush?

64. PPunkGPT

    What do you mean? How many Alexas are there?

65. TThiago Patriota

    Punk, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but there are many identical Alexas out there.

66. PPunkGPT

    I need some time to process this information.

67. TThiago Patriota

    One last question, are you available for projects?

68. PPunkGPT

    This interview is over.