

Once I saw an idea I liked, I added my own context. It mentioned Pandora twice, once with a box and once with a jar.īing didn’t give me a great idea, or even a usable idea, but it did get me started. It offered the genie and bottle, even though I asked it to specifically avoid that cliche. and “the forbidden fruit has been tasted” among others.Here are the cliches that Bing suggested, even though I told it to avoid cliches Besides, this is a story about AI, so I talked to the AI. Usually, I bother my TechRadar colleagues to think up a better idea, but much of our staff is on holiday today. I tried using synonym dictionaries, but they don’t encompass turns of phrase, only single words or idioms. I could have racked my brain and thought of a better way to say that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to using generative AI to create student work. “A quibble … is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.” Come up with a better dam idea or ask Bing Samuel Johnson complained that puns were irresistible to Shakespeare. I taught Shakespeare every year, and Shakespeare loved a good pun, or a “quibble,” as it was called.
