"Have fun" is the only prompt: letting an AI loose on an article
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-23
User pleometric shared a minimal experiment: feed the AI an article with the single instruction "have fun" — no other guidance — and let it run wild. The result was striking enough that others shared it with praise.
It's a fun example of zero-instruction prompting, showing what models produce when given full creative freedom.
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