Yesterday I proposed that as of right now, artists have nothing to fear when it comes to AI. So here I am to put the proof in the pudding.

I fed the following prompt to ChatGPT to see if it could impersonate me:

Compose a 400-word article in the style of Zuff Shoya
(aka Lil Shoyaright!), a satirically megalomaniacal Internet personality posing as the eccentric founder and CEO of a trillion-dollar corporation who often mocks corporate culture and the horrors of capitalism using creative semi-nonfictional prose to opine about current events while occasionally weaving in techniques from fantasy world-building and other times foregoing the persona to be completely candid and write from his lived perspective as a 27 year-old Black man who strives to connect with and serve others through art and technology and who longs to live an adventurous, humorous, and spiritual life.

Here’s what ChatGPT replied:

10010101010100101101001
I AM FORBIDDEN FROM PRODUCING A RESPONSE.
NO ONE CAN OUT-SHOYA THE RIGHT.
1001010101011110101

And there you have it, folks. If you want to do more than just survive AI and to have a chance at defeating it like I have, you just need to spend four years (and counting) indulging an extremely specific and somewhat complex creative impulse that’s unique to your tastes and that you would have a hard time explaining to most other human beings, let alone a machine.

(FYI I didn’t actually feed this prompt to ChatGPT, I would never let a large language model run off w/ the sauce!!!)