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I can’t answer your question but I would push back on the claim that it’s done the requested task very decently.

There is nothing uniquely Eminem or Dennett about their respective parts. Eminem has never released a verse with as simplistic rhyme scheme as what’s been produced.

Part of the mystique in your question is by assuming that’s it’s done the Eminem/Dennett part of the request justice, when it could really be anyone else’s name attached. I’m impressed that it can create a rap battle about consciousness, but I don’t think it’s done much more than that.



Once (if?) the chatGPT servers are up I'm going to ask for a rap battle between 42 Dugg and Daniel Dennett to test exactly this hypothesis.

I'm confident that the output will be stylistically different but maybe only superficially. After all some of the first generative NNs that made waves were image style transfer models, and they're fairly small. Who's to say chatGPT can't do a natural language equivalent of the same?


You can ask chatgpt for its analysis on what makes it have elements that are uniquely Eminem or dennett. Would be interesting to see what it says.


Fair point. I'd still argue that we are debating that it can 'merely' do a rap battle about consciousness is amazing. I think back to the time AlexNet came out. Would not have guessed this was possible in ten years.

Also, with Eminem, I wonder how much of it having to skirt obscenities etc. As a tune and rhyme deaf person, what would you say is a good example of Eminem's rhyme scheme. Thanks!


This video is the clearest explanation of advanced rhyme patterns I’ve seen: https://youtu.be/QWveXdj6oZU


oh wow, this is perfect, thank you!




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