A day or two ago I posted a new version of the folk tale Rosemary for Remembrance, but did not reveal where it came from. I can now reveal I’d dredged it from the bowels of ChatGPT. This is capable not only of condensing a piece of text, but also fleshing it out. Here is the record of the session which gave me my source material.

A good deal of manual editing was then necessary to make it presentable, and I explain why. Could ChatGPT have done this for me, if I’d said the right magic words? I don’t know.

In the next few weeks I intend to find out.