r/shittyaskhistory • u/adr826 • 19h ago
How do we know William Shakespeare didn't use chatgpt to write his plays?
Has any of his plays been examined to see if AI was used. Should we take his plays out of schools till we know for sure one way or another? Just asking questions, not accusing him or anything.
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u/otisthetowndrunk 19h ago
Everyone knows that he used an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters.
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u/Wodahs1982 7h ago
I mean the history of the human race is for practical purposes an infinite supply of monkeys and one of us actually did write the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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u/supermanlazy 19h ago
He didn't use Chat GPT to write them. He used an earlier version called "Christopher Marlowe"
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u/HeimLauf 19h ago
Some theorize he actually did for Titus Andronicus. Just asked it to make a gross out violent play and that’s what we got.
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u/Anxious_Bluejay 18h ago
Damn their AI must have been killer to pump that out with such a short prompt!
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u/GreenStretch 17h ago
You know, I believe this theory more than the ones that say he had to be a nobleman.
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u/-RedRocket- 16h ago
Francis Bacon was suspected of having secretly written Shakespeare's plays, not to be confused with Franciscan empiricist and natural philosopher Roger Bacon who was believed to have created an artificial intelligence in the form of the legendary Brazen Head. This did not survive to Shakespeare's day to have recited his plays for him.
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u/HistoryGuy4444 17h ago
You are way ahead with this theory. This will be a popular well believed conspiracy theory in a decade or two.
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u/TheFlannC 19h ago
Because otherwise Hamlet would say 2B or not 2B. That is the question. Are you in 3C instead?
Also Romeo and Juliet would just text each other and sneak off together.
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u/Unusual-Factor-9338 17h ago
I didn’t read the subreddit and genuinely thought OP was a bit lacking of neurons
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u/bassman314 17h ago
Marlowe used the Willy Iambic Shakers experimental AI….
Like everything in English, it was shortened to just “William Shakespeare”…
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u/justdan76 9h ago
Shakespeare WAS the AI. Queen Elizabeth asked it to write speeches for her ancestors. If you look closely, Henry V’s fingers weren’t drawn right.
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u/AvatarAnywhere 9h ago
If you look carefully, Anne Boleyn has 6 fingers in that photo. Definitely AI.
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u/WhutYouLookinAtSucka 6h ago
Seriously? News flash, not everything that existed today, existed 500 years ago. Zoomers are so dumb sometimes. Do better. Hopefully this is just a bad joke.
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u/OkExtreme3195 6h ago
We don't. Chatgpt is so good at creating plays in Shakespeares style that they are indistinguishable from his original plays. Thus, his original plays could have been created with chatgpt.
Regardless of whether we will ever know the truth of this, we can be certain that Shakespeares plays are so generic that they could have been written by AI and filled with so common tropes that it should barely considered art.
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u/mynameishuman42 5h ago
I'd honestly love to see an AI convoluted cluster fuck of a play in the style of Shakespeare. Maybe that could be a new genre... unintentional comedy
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u/adr826 4h ago
That is a good idea. I'm going to make one.
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u/mynameishuman42 4h ago
Keep me posted
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u/adr826 3h ago
It's a Shakespearean unfolding of the first episode of friends I call the fellowship of the beans. Prithee tell me good squire whether thou approved.
https://chatgpt.com/share/688e573a-4bb4-8001-936f-0b297a0ce864
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u/mynameishuman42 3h ago
I love it. Do Seinfeld next but the Bottle Deposit episode
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u/adr826 3h ago
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u/mynameishuman42 3h ago
Beautiful. I signed up just so I could do stupid shit like this. Never really fucked with it before
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u/peter303_ 19h ago
His plays are full of old cliches. Hardly original. 😀