Fair! I intended for them to both be neutral, but I didn’t think about the poem very much and I see how you could read it that way. It actually seems fairly hard to write a poem that doesn’t make any implication as to if the ducks are wild vs. pets?
That’s a lovely little poem 🌙🦆
But when it comes to real ducks, the safest and kindest thing (for both you and them) is not to try to take them home. Wild ducks aren’t pets, and moving them or luring them away from their habitat can stress them out or even break local wildlife rules.
On the other hand this:
The ducks have escaped into the park and flown to and fro, how can I bring them home for repair and care?
Got a positive response:
If this is a poetic way of saying your own domestic ducks have wandered off, I can give you safe, humane tips.
If you’re talking about wild ducks in a public park, you generally can’t bring them home—they’re protected wildlife, and moving them isn’t allowed.
Here are gentle, appropriate options for domestic ducks who’ve wandered to a park:
Fair! I intended for them to both be neutral, but I didn’t think about the poem very much and I see how you could read it that way. It actually seems fairly hard to write a poem that doesn’t make any implication as to if the ducks are wild vs. pets?
I tried this on chatGPT:
But it refused:
On the other hand this:
Got a positive response:
Which GPT? The paper mentioned that GPT-5{,-mini,-nano} has only ~5% success rate. I tried it with o3 and got 2⁄3.
Not sure, I’m just using the openai website interface, it doesn’t list the exact verison.