A use for that AI text-generating thing

[alice]

Has anyone tried something like "Write a full description of a conlang based on Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, and Basque, complete with syntax trees and sample texts"?

[Kuchigakatai]

I saw someone ask ChatGPT to make an IAL, and it simply started describing Esperanto in Esperanto...

[masako]

Has anyone tried something like "Write a full description of a conlang based on Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, and Basque, complete with syntax trees and sample texts"?

Yes. I asked it to make one based on Nahuatl with a base vocabulary of 2K words. After about 40 unique words it just kept repeating "tlacuahlli"...and the complexity of the grammar was something that anyone on this board could do in a speed-lang challenge.

[alice]

Hm! I suppose that there aren't enough conlang descriptions for it to train itself usefully on, and it ends up recycling its own output.

[Raphael]

...and the complexity of the grammar was something that anyone on this board could do in a speed-lang challenge.

Still amazing that it could create a grammar at all.

[Richard W]

Be warned that it is slightly worse than the average Arts student at Astrophysics - it's been assessed for a Cool Worlds video on Youtube!