Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s predicting language that it believes makes sense as a response to your prompt. With the right prompting, you can get it to create completely unique jokes

That’s interesting, I’ve had a very different experience of it in that regard.

I was running a roleplay through it, where I was a mercenary hired by a king to bring order to his realm. In the roleplay it had me going to a nearby village and clearing it of wolves, but then informed me that the villagers have been terrorised by a wizard living in a cave nearby. It asked me whether I wanted to go and seek the wizard out or move on to the next village.

So instead I told it a different plan - to lure the wizard to me by spreading a rumour among the villagers that a new wizard had arrived, one much more powerful and impressive.

What was so cool to see was chatGPT building off of this and introducing further details. It said that the wizard heard of the rumour and came to the village - but he was not so foolish to come alone. He had come with a small army of devout followers. Luckily with the help of the rebellious villagers who had felt empowered by my actions with the wolves, we were able to defeat him and his followers.

It feels so dynamic to me. I think when you ask it to be more fluid and reactionary, such as by asking it to specifically roleplay instead of writing a story, it works exceptionally well.