Desperate to know what the prompt for the poem is. The idea of it felt familiar so I went down the rabbit hole and found: 14 years ago, a poem on reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditDayOf/comments/tjjw2/may_12_a...] . Nowhere near the length of the one the author shared but the same idea.
> This is from "The Cyberiad", a collection of science-fiction fairy tales by Polish author Stanislaw Lem ... In one of the stories, a robot constructor named Trurl creates a machine that writes poetry. A jealous rival named Klapaucian challenges the machine to compose "...a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism and in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!!"
And the computer responds with:
"Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed.
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide"
The author had to be referencing this moment in their challenge to Fable/Mythos. I'm curious to know what their exact prompt was.
What's fascinating is that this is the difficulty of English translation -- which uses a different start letter and different words than the Polish one:
You can consider the job of a translator as compared to LLM. Both derivative works, working within some constraints but with room for creativity.> the author had to be referencing this moment in their challenge to Fable/Mythos.
Or it just swept it up in the training data given Anthropic license Reddit comments.