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Yeah, it would be pretty surprising to find out that India has so many individuals that are profoundly competent at converting arbitrary text into rhymes in Elizabethan English.

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I know this comment is just adding on to the joke, but the number of people who can speak / read English in India is very high. There are more English speakers in India than multiple large European countries combined.

Maybe so, but Indian English practically its own dialect at this point.

Nothing wrong with that, but the responses I get from ChatGPT are not in that dialect. (Who knows, maybe by paying for ChatGPT Plus I qualify for an upgrade to the Irish data center.)

I said Elizabethan English, not English. As in Shakespeare. The point is that there are probably at most a few thousand people in the world who could display that level of competence at making Shakespearean rhymes. And I doubt enough of them work in call centers in India to service the entire user base of ChatGPT. Nothing about my comment implies that there are not millions of competent English speakers in India.

Realistically there could be a mix of genuine LLM magic combined with heavy on the spot curation by massive teams of incredibly smart people.

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