ChatGPT spins a pirate yarn within another story [Blackbeard ascends to the stars]

The title tells you what’s going on. I’m just going to present the whole session without comment. My “little gray cells,” as Hercule Poirot would say, need a rest.

Come to think of it, toward the end ChatGPT doesn’t respond to the longer prompts in ways I’d expected it to. I think part of that is a function of the ‘slack’ in language, and part of it is that ChatGPT made a mistake or two. There are some inconsistences in what it did. I asked it about that at the very end. ChatGPT’s response was interesting and ...