doggerel

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ChatGPT can turn out doggerel poetry or freshman and sophomore essays, pass tests on some technical subjects, write press releases, compile legal filings with a veneer of professionalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

You can’t write doggerel for Burt Bacharach songs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Worse, he was capable of doggerel even dogs wouldn’t want to read:

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

The only thing that seems even a little surprising is a bit of doggerel, a love poem in Prince Dain’s hand, about a woman who remains unidentified, except by her “sunrise hair” and “starlit eyes.”

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black