The amazing power of AI

Monday-Tuesday blog

This blog will be a bit different from my usual moaning. I couldn’t sleep last night so wandered around the Internet for a couple of hours. When looking at YouTube, I came across a video explaining how to use AI programme Chatgpt. I watched a couple of minutes and then out of curiosity went to chatgpt.com.

I’m currently producing two short YouTube videos. One of Keir Starmer ‘singing’ “Back in the EU-SSR” to the tune of the Beatles “Back in the USSR” about how he was taking us back into the EU. The other one is of Rachel Reeves ‘singing’ “I crashed the economy” to the tune of Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee”.

Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT to write new words to “Me and Bobby McGee” with Rachel Reeves singing about how she crashed the economy. Within a couple of seconds, ChatGPT came up with this:

“Me and Rachel Reeves”
(To the tune of “Me and Bobby McGee”)

Verse 1
Busted flat in Birmingham, budget red as flame,
Feelin’ near as broke as one can be.
Rachel read her ledger out, said “Growth is just a name,”
But taxes rose like smoke from GST.

Verse 2
I shared my last tenner, she took half in green,
Promised roads and trains and something new.
But all I got was VAT on every little dream,
And a note that said, “This pain is good for you.”

Chorus
Freedom’s just a word now in a Treasury decree,
Nothin’ left to lose, just more to pay.
Feelin’ more like debtors every time we try to eat,
Me and Rachel Reeves led the way.

Verse 3
From Liverpool to London, the High Street signs went dark,
Shops all shuttered down and out of steam.
She said, “We must be prudent,” with a cold accountant’s heart,
While inflation danced a silent fiscal scream.

Bridge
She taxed the wind, she taxed the rain,
She taxed our thoughts and hopes and pain.
Said, “Only growth comes through control,”
But left the North out in the cold.

Chorus
Freedom’s just a slogan hung in Treasury TV,
Used to mean a choice, now just delay.
But if taxes built utopias, we’d all be sipping tea,
With me and Rachel Reeves paving the way.

Chatgpt then asked if I wanted the lyrics to be more biting and humorous. I said yes and within less than 2 seconds, Chatgpt came up with this:

“Me and Rachel Reeves”
(To the tune of “Me and Bobby McGee”)
Satirical Version

Verse 1
Busted flat in Barnsley, purse was feelin’ thin,
Rachel said, “Don’t worry, this is growth!”
She slapped a tax on cuppas, called it “levelling within,”
Now even Greggs feels posh for us poor oaths.

Verse 2
She taxed the bin, she taxed the loo,
She taxed my gran for breathing too.
Said, “Fiscal rules are sacred—just ignore the debt we grew,”
While Parliament was snoring through the news.

Chorus
Freedom’s just a number Rachel hides beneath a graph,
Nothin’ left to save, it’s all been spent.
Said she’d soak the rich, but gave ‘em all a bubble bath—
Guess the joke was us, not where it went.

Verse 3
She taxed the north, she taxed the south,
She’d tax your thoughts if she had clout.
Put duty on the rain and slapped a surcharge on the sun,
Now every pint costs twelve quid and a lung.

Bridge
“Productivity’s too low!” she said, then raised the tax on tea,
Which made the office kettle stage a coup.
She banned balloons and biscuits in a climate spending spree,
But gave MPs a bonus for their view.

Chorus
Freedom’s just a buzzword in a spreadsheet gone berserk,
GDP fell through the floor again.
She blamed it all on Brexit, Thatcher, and some clerical work,
While taxing dogs and cyclists in the rain.

Outro
If taxing dreams was policy, we’d all be billionaires,
But we’re skint, and she’s still on TV.
Ah, I’d trade all her green levies for a Chancellor who cares—
Me and Rachel Reeves ain’t meant to be.

I won’t be using the Chatgpt version for my video. I have already written the new lyrics for my videos. But I loved some of Chatgpt’s lines such as:

She taxed the wind, she taxed the rain,
She taxed our thoughts and hopes and pain.

and:

She taxed the bin, she taxed the loo,
She taxed my gran for breathing too.

Of course, Chatgpt’s lyrics weren’t perfect and could be improved. But I was blown away by how even a technical neanderthal like myself could use Chatgpt and how brilliant its lyrics were. Moreover, I was just fiddling around with the free version. If you have a paid account, you apparently get many more functions and a much more powerful programme helping you. So I thought some readers might find this little exercise interesting. Before doing this I had no idea about what AI was and what it could do.

Maybe I wasted months of my life researching and writing my latest book THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS. Perhaps I should have just gone to Chatgpt and asked it to write a 80,000-word book for me debunking the climate crisis nonsense. Chatgpt would probably have just taken a few minutes to do what took me months. Having seen Chatgpt at work, I have a feeling that an awful lot of people’s jobs are going to be replaced by new AI programmes.