Haikus were generated every day for a
year and a half.
When I began in mid-Oct 2023, the leading
stories were
about
Israel/Hamas, and the price of olive oil in the midst of extreme
weather. I was using OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5-turbo, and struggling
to prompt it in a way that made sense.
When I wound down the project mid-May 2025,
the
leading stories were Pope Leo XIV being selected and Chinese
exports being scrambled in light of
Trump's tariffs. I was using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5
(new), with a simple one-prompt structure.
Several haikus were selected for publication in The Panacea
Review, Vol. 1, and provide a nice overview: