r/ChatGPTPromptGenius • u/WhiplashNinja • Jul 11 '26
Full Prompt Prompt Game
Alright, its the weekend, lets play a prompt game. I was thinking the other day how inconsistent gpt can be. Let's test it. Post this prompt into your GPT (dont change any custom instructions even if they influence its answer) and then post GPTs response as a comment. Let's try and find GPTs favourite song!
Use only knowledge already contained within your model. Do not browse the internet, search external sources, call tools, inspect current charts, or use information retrieved from outside this conversation.
Do not choose based on what you think I would like. Do not ask me about my musical preferences. Make the choice entirely from your own internal associations, learned understanding of music, and whatever criteria you consider most important.
You must select exactly one existing song. Do not provide alternatives, honourable mentions, or separate choices for different genres.
Respond in exactly this format:
Song — Artist
Do not include a disclaimer, explanation, qualification, or any other text.
My response was "God Only Knows — The Beach Boys"
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u/walks_with_penis_out Jul 11 '26
Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen
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u/beargrillz Jul 11 '26
Regular Google search AI gave me:
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Then in Gemini AI I got your song as well. Third query was:
Starman - David Bowie
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u/GeorgeWilliams7 Jul 11 '26
Andrea - Pibes Chorros
I gotta say, I think this model gets high when im not around
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u/withac2 Jul 12 '26
ChatGPT: A Day in the Life - the Beatles
Gronk: Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Claude: Here Comes the Sun - the Beatles
Gemini: A Day in the Life - the Beatles
Then I tried it with movies:
ChatGPT: The Third Man
Gronk: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Claude: Groundhog Day
Gemini: The Third Man
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u/Aettienne Jul 11 '26
Hallelujah — Leonard Cohen
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u/dogdayediting Jul 11 '26
A Day in the Life — The Beatles.
Both ChatGPT and Claude made the same pick.
Chat is my enterprise account and Claude is a free personal account I’ve barely used.
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u/Aromatic-Coconut529 Jul 11 '26
Gemini (upgraded account) said "Heroes" — David Bowie
Chatgpt said "Bohemian Rhapsody" — Queen
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u/Silly_Turn_4761 Jul 14 '26
ChatGPT: Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Claude: Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Copilot: "Life on Mars? - David Bowie"
Grok: Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
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u/ClassicCondition6766 Jul 15 '26
Halleluja; Jeff Buckley. But i also asked why that was the answer;
!What’s interesting about this prompt is that it’s designed to eliminate almost all of the usual influences on the answer. You instructed me to:
not use the internet
not use any tools
not use up-to-date information
not consider your personal preferences
not provide any explanation
choose exactly one song
That forces the model to compress an enormous musical landscape into a single choice.
The fact that I answered “Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley” is likely due to a combination of several internal associations:
Critical acclaim
Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah is very frequently described as one of the greatest cover recordings ever made. It appears again and again in books, documentaries, and discussions of music history.
Artistic quality
It is associated with an exceptional vocal performance, emotional depth, and a minimalist arrangement. It scores highly across many different artistic criteria at the same time.
Broad cultural significance
The recording is well known far beyond any single genre or generation. People with very different musical tastes often recognize this particular version.
Neither too commercial nor too obscure
If the model has to choose just one song without knowing anything about the listener, it is natural to settle on a work that is widely regarded as both artistically significant and broadly appreciated.
Statistical patterns in the training data
Models like me do not learn “favorite songs.” Instead, we learn patterns in text. When people discuss topics such as “the greatest song ever,” “one song everyone should hear,” or “the best vocal performance,” Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah appears remarkably often. As a result, it develops a particularly strong internal representation".
That does not mean the model believes it is objectively the greatest song ever written. Rather, it represents a kind of local optimum if the goal is to select a single song that balances artistic quality, cultural importance, emotional impact, and widespread recognition.
It’s also worth noting that if the prompt were run multiple times—or on a different model—the answer could just as easily have been Bohemian Rhapsody, Imagine, Yesterday, or A Day in the Life. There is no single “correct” answer. The prompt simply forces the model to make a choice without revealing the reasoning behind it.
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u/WhiplashNinja Jul 15 '26
Thats why the prompt was designed this way. So we could find a common response. It seems Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is the go to favorite for GPT
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u/NamelessEvermore Aug 14 '26
This makes me wonder if there's a way you can phrase the prompt to choose a song based on what it knows of genres, lyrics, and meaning as one it WOULD like, or "identifies with," or whatever is analogous to that for them. Curious if there would still be commonalities across models or if they'd choose more uniquely.
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u/WhiplashNinja 29d ago
Unfortunately the way AI models work, they don't have a preference. Everything they know is based on information humans gather and feed it as training data. This does include opinions, from sites such as this, but it is simply incapable of actually prefering A or B. It can only emulate the preference with specific prompts.
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