In any case, I have to agree with ChatGPT that this is not a good definition of ‘tragedy’. According to this definition, Oedipus Rex is not a tragedy because Oedipus was not doing a good thing when he unnecessarily threw an old man from a chariot & caused him to die, becoming a parricide and setting in motion the plot; similarly, Hamlet is not a tragedy because Hamlet murders Polonius etc.
Thanks for catching the broken link. It’s now fixed.
Beyond that, good lord! I know that it’s not a good definition of tragedy; I pointed that out in my introductory remarks. This is not about what tragedy is. It’s about whether or not ChatGPT can apply a simple definition to simple examples. It did that.
On the other hand, I suppose I could dock it some points for getting overly chatty, as in its response in Trial Two, but I think that would be asking too much of it. I don’t know what OpenAI had in mind during the fine-tuning and RLHFing, but the result is a somewhat pointlessly helpful busybody of a Chatbot.
Your ACL link is broken: https://aclanthology.info/pdf/J/J79/J79-1082.pdf
In any case, I have to agree with ChatGPT that this is not a good definition of ‘tragedy’. According to this definition, Oedipus Rex is not a tragedy because Oedipus was not doing a good thing when he unnecessarily threw an old man from a chariot & caused him to die, becoming a parricide and setting in motion the plot; similarly, Hamlet is not a tragedy because Hamlet murders Polonius etc.
Thanks for catching the broken link. It’s now fixed.
Beyond that, good lord! I know that it’s not a good definition of tragedy; I pointed that out in my introductory remarks. This is not about what tragedy is. It’s about whether or not ChatGPT can apply a simple definition to simple examples. It did that.
On the other hand, I suppose I could dock it some points for getting overly chatty, as in its response in Trial Two, but I think that would be asking too much of it. I don’t know what OpenAI had in mind during the fine-tuning and RLHFing, but the result is a somewhat pointlessly helpful busybody of a Chatbot.