I've often thought about writing a continuation of The Edge of Night, with a killer using Kelly McGrath's clown puppet to once again terrorize the residents of Monticello. I recently used ChatGPT to see what it could come up with and, frankly, the results were disappointing. It proposed a storyline featuring Adam and Nicole Drake as major characters in the revival, stating that Adam had been involved in the original 1980-81 clown puppet murder storyline. It also described Adam as being "morally ambiguous" and said he had been revealed as the clown puppet killer back in the early 1980s.
Much of what it proposed for an Edge revival deviated greatly from the show's canon. I alerted ChatGPT that Adam and Nicole had been killed off in the original series and couldn't be part of a revival. It then went on to state that the show canon had Nicole murdered by Malcolm Thomas in 1982, followed by Adam's murder in 1984. Of course, Adam had been murdered in 1977, with Nicole murdered in 1983. As I understand it, Malcolm was a character back in the 1960s. ChatGPT then went on to say that Mike Karr had been married to Nicole and married Nancy after Nicole's murder.
I personally see value in AI like ChatGPT. It's been an invaluable resource as my husband and I plan our move to Amsterdam in a few years. However, it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of developing fiction.
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