@mattmcirvin Indeed, I ran a successful exercise much along these lines with one of my classes (see student remarks downthread):
hachyderm.io/@inthehands/10947

I think there really is a “there” there with LLMs; it just bears close to no resemblance to the wildly overhyped Magic Bean hysteria currently sweeping biz. Generating bullshit does actually have useful applications. But until the dust settles, how much harm will it cause?