For the blog assignment this week, I experimented with A.I tools through exploring ChatGPT. The topic was to explore a subject that I know a lot about and create a prompt for the program to write about in lightning speed. The subject that I wanted it to write about is how the animated series South Park has explored and tackled censorship ideas and practices throughout the decades of the show.
The prompt I gave was “In 300 words, how has South Park challenged censorship?” The response that I got felt fairly satisfying, but as a massive fan of both the show and series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, I felt that the generated response felt a bit flat. Some great episodes in the earlier seasons were mentioned as examples, and excluded episodes that gained the status of a “banned episode” (there are currently five in the series). There are many other fantastic examples of episodes that have challenged censorship, some of the most notable examples being “Cartoon Wars part 1 and 2” and the episodes “200 and 201”.
Overall, I enjoyed using the software. I think it’s a fun and unique tool that can help form a nice outline for a final finished written product. I like how the sentences were flowing nicely and broke up into small sections that were easy to go back, rewrite in my own voice, and edit a bit more.
Here is the link to the Google Doc that has both the ChatGPT response and my rewritten version of the generated response! 📄🤖
