My ChatGPT Prompts That Returned a “Something Went Wrong” Error Message
2 min readJun 5, 2023
- Help me finish my bildungsroman novel. I don’t have much so far, just the first line: “It was the best of times; in fact, shit was pretty tight.”
- Write a conversation from Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s podcast, Renegades: Born in the USA, in which they discuss racial inequality, except Bruce is actually an AI bot pretending to be Darryl from Living Single.
- Write a scene like something out of Succession, except it's just Emily Ratajkowski and Dua Lipa argue over who is hotter.
- Create a recipe using only these ingredients: dry spaghetti, mayonnaise, ground beef (slightly freezer burned), 1 onion, salt, pepper, Trader Joe’s Everything But The Elote seasoning, 2 packets of ramen shrimp seasoning (no noodles), milk (expired), 3 eggs (maybe expired).
- Produce a five-minute standup routine about the new live-action Little Mermaid in the style of Michael Richards.
- Tell me how AI works in basic terms. Like really basic. Go on, explain it to me like I was a fucking five-year-old.
- Why is there no interest in my screenplay for a race-swapped remake of the 1986 C. Thomas Howell comedy, Soul Man?
- Same question, but for Emily Ratatouille, an original script about a famous supermodel who is secretly controlled by a sexy rat in her hair.
- Write a letter from my dad in which he tells me he’s proud of me and doesn’t at all regret paying for me to study creative writing at Bard for two and a half years.
- “Dua Liposuction”; is that something?
