{"id":33741,"date":"2026-03-16T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=33741"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:07:48","slug":"suckered-by-a-bot-a-poem-and-song-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/suckered-by-a-bot-a-poem-and-song-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"SUCKERED BY A BOT &#8212; a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/suckered-by-a-bot-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/suckered-by-a-bot-optimized.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/suckered-by-a-bot-optimized-557x696.png 557w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/suckered-by-a-bot-optimized-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n<p>SUCKERED BY A BOT<\/p>\n<p>by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bill's Bible Basics Poetry and Songs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07-26-2025<\/p>\n<p>I was suckered by this bot,<br \/>\nMan, it played me so good,<br \/>\nYes, it promised me things,<br \/>\nThat weren&#8217;t under its hood.<\/p>\n<p>Oh it would do great stuff,<br \/>\nMy work would be very seen,<br \/>\nBut alas it was all fiction,<br \/>\nJust a hallucinatory dream.<\/p>\n<p>So I paid for their service,<br \/>\nAnd I pulled up my sleeves,<br \/>\nReady to build a great thing,<br \/>\nBut oh how that bot deceives.<\/p>\n<p>It gave me many instructions,<br \/>\nThat I implemented on my end,<br \/>\nOnly to find out quite later,<br \/>\nWhat? It&#8217;s all just pretend?<\/p>\n<p>No, friends, I am not joking,<br \/>\nNine GPTs it said it had made,<br \/>\nThey had even been published,<br \/>\nI was getting for what I&#8217;d paid.<\/p>\n<p>So I went to the MyGPTs menu,<br \/>\nBut there was nothing there,<br \/>\nYes, it was shortly thereafter,<br \/>\nI began pulling out all my hair.<\/p>\n<p>So I emailed the OpenAI staff,<br \/>\nAsking where my GPTs had gone,<br \/>\nTheir answer turned on a light,<br \/>\nThe awful truth began to dawn.<\/p>\n<p>That bot could create nothing,<br \/>\nEven though it thought it did,<br \/>\nSo my work had been for naught,<br \/>\nMan, I totally flipped my lid!<\/p>\n<p>All those days working closely,<br \/>\nDoing exactly as I&#8217;d been told,<br \/>\nPreparing files building a menu,<br \/>\nAnd then left out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Why did the bot never tell me,<br \/>\nGPT Builder was the place to go,<br \/>\nAs smart as that darn thing is,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d think that it would know.<\/p>\n<p>But it did not give a whisper,<br \/>\nAs we worked to build my stuff,<br \/>\nWell, so it led me to believe,<br \/>\nI think I have now had enough.<\/p>\n<p>So I began my GPT project anew,<br \/>\nBut now doing it the right way,<br \/>\nBuilding a useful research tool,<br \/>\nBut I have so much more to say.<\/p>\n<p>All knowledge base files ready,<br \/>\nFormatted right to be scanned,<br \/>\nBut my nightmare was not over,<br \/>\nThings then got so out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>My GPT bot was finally finished,<br \/>\nAnd so began the testing phase,<br \/>\nWhat in the world is going on?<br \/>\nMy GPT is in a drugged up daze!<\/p>\n<p>Hallucinating something crazy,<br \/>\nQuoting things I never even said,<br \/>\nAttributing many articles to me,<br \/>\nI had not thought up in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Hallucinations, inventions galore,<br \/>\nYes, representing some other guy,<br \/>\nNo way I could publish or promote,<br \/>\nFor it would surely tell a big lie.<\/p>\n<p>It would leave me so embarrassed,<br \/>\nBy a fake person made in a dream,<br \/>\nGPT, you are not up to this task,<br \/>\nYou really make me want to scream.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks of my time were wasted,<br \/>\nAs I neglected my real-world work,<br \/>\nGPT, I know you do not care but &#8230;<br \/>\nYou are really just one big jerk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Poetry #Poem SUCKERED BY A BOT by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 07-26-2025 I was suckered by this bot, Man, it played me so good, Yes, it promised me things, That weren&#8217;t under its hood. 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