Sophie, a young pianist, dreams of performing at a concert hall. When she gets an invitation letter, she feels overjoyed and begins to prepare for a debut, though with a sense of foreboding. On concert day, the sound of music comes from nowhere. She finds that it is created by the ghosts of past performers, yet continues to play her instrument. Her performance brings the ghosts peace, and they gradually disappear. As time goes by, Sophie becomes a successful pianist, but she never forgets the event.
It is a plot summary of a short story titled Ghosts Of The Nocturne by ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI. I gave it the instruction to compose a short story based on music in the style of Kazuo Ishiguro's Nocturnes (2009). I repeated and refined the prompts, and it produced different stories. It took around a minute for each task, although its writing does not build up to a climax. Sophie is more like a soulless puppet on the page. Only bone, without flesh and blood.
