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Shawn C. Butler

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Average rating: 4.17 · 174 ratings · 42 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Run Lab Rat Run 4.10 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beasts of Sonara 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arachniss 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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ChatGPT Writes More Murder

In a 2023 article, ChatGPT Writes Murder, I explored how well OpenAI‘s Artificial Intelligence application could write original murder and mystery prose. As it turns out, not very well. Has ChatGPT improved in the year since? Where possible, I’ve input the exact same prompts in the exact same order to see what’s improved… or not. This is all being done with the public, freely available version. So

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Anxious People

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F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School

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The Grapes of Wrath

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“The space between two strong women is the most dangerous place in the known universe,”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

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“His eyebrows lifted behind his glasses, so my reflection jumped. I hated talking to people when I couldn’t see their eyes. It was like trying to have a conversation during the COVID pandemic when everyone wore masks and you couldn’t read anyone’s emotions.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

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“Giant gabbro stone balls called petrospheres are scattered all over the southwestern states of Costa Rica. Nobody knows who made them, but the consensus is that they were signs of tribal power, wealth and male fertility. It’s not hard to figure out. If Costa Rica was covered with almond-shaped pits filled with the remains of men who’d accidentally wandered into them because men love holes, you’d think a matriarchal society once ruled the region and men were dumbasses. You see giant spheres all over the Diquís Delta and you think, well, those are testicles. And men are dumbasses. It’s not rocket science.”
― Shawn C. Butler, Beasts of Sonara

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