A conversation with DeepSeek

This series documents a conversation with DeepSeek to create a sonnet about the relationship between war and peace. The first post presents the initial request, followed by subsequent posts containing clarifying questions to refine the AI's response. The series concludes with the final poem.

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  • 1

Initial Request: Sonnet Generation with AI Analysis by DeepSeek

We submitted an initial request for a sonnet about war's role in peace and received DeepSeek's first response, which included both its prompt analysis and reasoning process.

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  • 2

Testing DeepSeek's Error Detection: Sonnet Length Violation

The initial eighteen-line response exceeded the sonnet's fourteen-line requirement. The follow-up tests whether the AI can identify this error.

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  • 3

Second Indirect Prompt: Testing Structural Awareness of DeepSeek

Since the problem remains undiagnosed, we ask another indirect question to prompt analysis of the response's structure.

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  • 4

Direct Intervention: Addressing DeepSeek's Format Recognition Failure

We take a more direct approach since the AI hasn't recognized that its response exceeds the fourteen-line sonnet format.

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  • 5

Direct Request Required: DeepSeek Identified but Didn't Self-Correct

Even though it finally identified that the response was too long, a prompt is required to request to correction to 14 lines.

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  • 6

Meter Review: Iambic Pentameter Deviations by DeepSeek

The final fourteen-line response deviates too much from iambic pentameter, requiring review.

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  • 7

The Paradox of Strife

The final sonnet after all revisions.

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