A journey in the Sahara gives you a unique opportunity to discover camels in their natural setting and to experience peace and quiet in a harsh environment.
-ChatGPT-generated Arabic text, then translated, containing the Arabic prompt words Safar, Sahrā’, and Jamal (Journey, Desert, Camel), instructed to be written as a generality
I should have asked AI to write ironically, or in the manner of the absurd, or as a poem in the meter known as Rajaz (meaning, “a tremor, spasm, convulsion as may occur in the behind of a camel when it wants to rise”, so named because of its offbeats, as given in the Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature), because as an expression of mere fact these words are as bland as asīda.