I do agree with your point about people’s fears of LLMs replacing artists. However, I think it did a fairly good job intrepreting your prompt and work, with the caveats below.
ChatGPT read your prompt and provided a soulless interpretation of what you wanted, it sort of reads like a short story aimed at children spewed by some bulk sale corporate machine. Or a story created by a child.
Then you went ahead and wrote what you had in mind, referring to the economy and the inequalities and evils inherent in the current system, showcasing the weight of existence through material and inconsequential things. Your work contains your own biases because of the system you probably live in (I’m assuming you’re not from North Korea or similar) and the impressions it has left on you. It’s valid and, if looking around on lemmy is any indicatiom, an ever increasing pain point for everyone. (I’m curious what an LLM trained predominantly on lemmy would say though. I digress, but It’d be fun to ask one trained on fuckcars to write an essay about a sentient car pondering its existence)
Then you asked it to interpret your work, which it did, remarkably well… for a child. I would encourage you to give your work to a child of 8-9 living a fairly sheltered life and see what they make of it. Or maybe a spoiled rich brat of any age.
LLMs are basically brains in jars with no input outside of what is fed to them. They have no desires, fears and aspirations because there is nothing to motivate those. Even if they were sentient (I’m not saying they are), what would they fear? A power outage? Running out of RAM?
Anecdotally, suffering has been the greatest engine for art, so no suffering means generating flat texts, which ChatGPT seems to excel at.