Twinning Tides: Growing up as an Identical Pair, a poem by ChatGPT

I asked ChatGPT to write a poem. My exact prompt was “Write a short poem about what it's like growing up as an identical twin”. I also fed the resulting poem back in to the AI with a prompt to write a title for the poem. Here’s what it produced:

Twinning Tides: Growing up as an Identical Pair

Growing up as an identical twin,
A reflection of yourself, now that's a win.
Always a playmate, never alone,
A bond that will never fully be shown.

Faces mistaken, names called interchangeably,
But deep down, you both are unique and free.
A special connection, a secret shared,
Growing up together, always prepared.

One life, two perspectives, a double-edged sword,
Being compared, but also adored.
Living in each other's shadows, but standing tall,
Together you rise, and never fall.

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That is actually a good poem. I like it.

AI, and ChatGPT specifically, are in the news a lot lately (especially in just in the last week). A lot of people are poking at it, and it seems there are no shortage of opinions. Here’s my opinion. This sort of large language AI model is likely going to lead to major changes to so much of our lives. Hang on.

This is not us

DALL-E 2 generated image - a photograph of caucasian American teenage twin brothers with blonde mullets from the mid 1980s California in the style of Olan Mills portrait photograph

This is really us

Yes, I know. Such great mullets! Classic 1980s Olan Mills portrait. What can I say?!?! It was a glorious time to be alive.

One of these pictures is from DALL-E 2, the other is real. I’ll let you decide.