Friday Frivolity: Human v. AI Limerick Challenge

I attended a session last week about using AI in teaching and life. The first example that the person running the webinar used to illustrate generative AI's capabilities was, for some reason, to ask it to compose a Limerick. It was about a cat. Rather tame stuff, I thought, but I had to admit, it was metrically competent.

The next request was for a Limerick about a girl eating an ice cream cone. Some people think that Limericks have to be bawdy. It's not true. The original Limericks were neither bawdy nor very funny. They were just odd. However, if Limericks were supposed to bawdy, the generative AI took no notice of that parameter. And now the composition was metrically bumpy.

Nonetheless, I was anxious. The demonstration involved Microsoft Pilot. What if a more advanced version of the technology surpassed my entire oeuvre of legal Limericks before you could say "estoppel"?

Well, here are some samples.  You be the judge. Is it real or is it generative AI?

Raffles v. Wichelhaus

Two merchants agreed on a ship,
But which Peerless would make the trip?
One was October,
The other sailed over—
So the court let the contract slip.

or 

In Peerless, a contract for cotton
Was found by the court to be rotten.
Two ships that so hailed
To Liverpool sailed,
No consensus ad idem was gotten.

Leonard v. PepsiCo.

Intent to be bound was a barrier
To Leonard getting a harrier.
Now he only drinks Coke,
And he gets every joke,
But I would not say he's much merrier.

Leonard saw jets on TV,
Said, “I’ll cash in my points—get that free!”
But Pepsi replied,
“No jet can be tried—
Our ad wasn’t serious, you see.”

Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B.N.S. International Sales Corp.

Of Judge Friendly's great chicken coup,
Shakespeare's witches would make much ado,
With defendant they'd howl,
"Foul is fair, fair is fowl!"
That is, chickens fit only for stew.

A fight broke out over "chicken,"
With meanings that just wouldn't thicken.
One thought it was young,
But the court found among
The terms, any bird could be stricken.

In due course, I will put the answers in the comments.