{"id":464377,"date":"2026-05-24T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/464377\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:10:08","slug":"poem-keep-your-friends-close-and-chatgpt-closer-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/464377\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Keep your friends close and ChatGPT closer \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, ChatGPT, haven\u2019t heard of you,<br \/>\nTeacher said to try this, \u2018You might learn something new\u2019,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll give it a go if it\u2019ll keep Miss quiet,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a once-off thing, I may as well try it.<\/p>\n<p>Events of the Cold War, please, bullet-point form,<br \/>Why are countries at the equator far more warm?<br \/>How many moons does Jupiter have?<br \/>Make a pros and cons list of going out with that lad.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT, help, my homework is so hard,<br \/>Today is my aunt\u2019s birthday, write her a card,<br \/>Finish my essay on that lad King Lear,<br \/>You know, the one written by William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>Lengthen this, Shorten this, do it right now,<br \/>Make this answer better because I don\u2019t know how,<br \/>Simplify it, underline it, make it make sense,<br \/>I need you to guide me through this sea of nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT, I\u2019ve forgotten how to think,<br \/>All of my opinions are washed down the sink,<br \/>ChatGPT, what should I do?<br \/>Come on! I need you! I\u2019m relying on you!\n<\/p>\n<p>This poem was published in The Irish Times Fighting Words magazine, a collection of stories, poems and essays by young and international writers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello, ChatGPT, haven\u2019t heard of you, Teacher said to try this, \u2018You might learn something new\u2019, I\u2019ll give&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[198710,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-464377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-fighting-words","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}