the monetisation experiment

 

The impact on my blog of the adsense ads is just so ugly that I am blown away by it. I am 99% certain that I will end the experiment in a few days (so far I have earned around 1c from it, and that is not an exaggeration). Even if the rewards were, you know, a dollar a day I don't think I could hack it. (If the rewards were ten dollars a day, well, I'd leave this blog to its own devices for a couple of years to just earn money for itself and write a novel or something instead). 

chat gpt must try harder

Canberra Times 6 October 1987 p. 16

I asked chat gpt to generate a list of a hundred one-syllable made-up words that sound like English words. It came up with this list:

Zorp Dweeb Snook Blik Quib Flonk Plib Grank Vlurp Triz Splosh Zink Gork Frib Blip Snorf Dlunk Plint Chorb Scrax Frizzle Crump Quorp Snug Zlurp Jank Flump Prang Glorp Throb Krunk Snit Vlank Plink Grump Snaz Bork Flit Zank Brisk Glint Fwip Crang Thwack Skrunk Plump Squib Snock Trank Blonk Plorp Snish Grizzle Drang Splork Sklank Floop Twang Blunk Prink Quix Skrill Bort Zorp Slank Brinx Spork Zlank Chomp Quill Snirt Blort Grank Frink Drib Squirt Trill Zlork Flank Snix Glink Thrunk Skank Plib Brump Spint Frob Zib Glurk Splink Snack Plong Squink Trink Blop Quirk Snib Crunk Splint Grink These are all imaginary one-syllable words and have no actual meanings in English.

Off the top of my head, and ignoring the lazy repetitions, 'dweeb'?! 'blip'??! 'snug'?! 'prang'?! 'throb'?!! 'grump'!?!! 'flit'!? 'brisk'??!! 'glint'!!!!???? 'thwack'? 'PLUMP'???!!! I stopped reading after that, as chat gpt clearly does not know the English language and thinks everything's stupid. On the second point it may be correct but... 'snack'???!!!