At least they can generate haikus now
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The appearance of improvements in that capability are due to the vocabulary of modern LLMs increasing. Still only putting lipstick on a pig.
And if your "lipstick on a pig" argument is that even when they generate haikus, they aren't really writing haikus, then I'll link to this other gwern post, about how they'll never really be able to solve the rubik's cube - https://gwern.net/rubiks-cube