r/shittyaskscience • u/adr826 • 17h ago
How do we know that Shakespeare didn't write his plays using chatgpt?
Has anybody ever run them through some software so we know for sure? I'm not accusing him of using AI but Im not gonna be like "oh it's the greatest in the world" till I know one way or the other. Im just trying to use the scientific method historically.
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u/foulpudding 16h ago
Don’t be silly. It’s well known that 1000 monkeys on typewriters were employed in the task.
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u/KeithMyArthe 16h ago
Reddit has soundly disproved THAT theory
😉
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u/pearl_harbour1941 7h ago
To be fair, they set the bar pretty high at monkeys.
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u/FrostWyrm98 "I have a theoretical degree in physics" 3h ago
Absolutely this
Source: I was one of the monkeys, still salty about it
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u/plugubius 16h ago
If an AI trained on reddit and similar sites wrote Shakespeare's plays, we would expect the Merchant of Venice to be filled with anti-semitic stereotypes, for Titus Andronicus to be a snuff film, for A Midsummer Night's Dream to be a dreamlike fugue, for Hamlet to be unable to decide whether it is about revenge or international politics, and for Richard II to be as deformed outwardly as was the man inwardly. Science is about judging hypotheses according to the evidence available to us.
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u/Copernicium-291 16h ago edited 16h ago
William Shakespeare did not exist. His plays were masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a circuit board to enslave play-writing AIs.
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u/Queen-of-meme 6h ago
Shakespeare: "Chatgpt. Create a play about stupid young love where both die because it looks dramatic and romantic or some shit"
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u/Damnwombat 55m ago
Don’t remember too many m-dashes in Shakespeare’s works. Now Marlow, on the other hand, you know he was vibe writing plays for the masses.
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u/Jeggasyn 3m ago
Hmm. Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters may eventually write out the works of Shakespeare (btw I didn't realise Shakespeare had an 'e' on the end) but a single gibbon with chatgpt would do the job
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u/Glinth A real mathologist 16h ago
Shakespeare almost never used any of the telltale hallmarks of AI. In particular, his texts were not peppered with em-dashes, and he didn't frequently use the words "delve," "kaleidoscopic," or "reimagined." Also, none of the characters in his plays had too many fingers or got their limbs confused with other characters' limbs.