Compare your work against the machine. Because the underlying model that powers ChatGPT is unfortunately not public, I'm using a model that is, called RoBERTa.1 It's what I'll be using for my analysis, although almost everything here should translate to any model trained the same way.

As it turns out, challenge is the correct answer here. The sentence reads

Butler is best known for their books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional notions of gender and develop their theory of gender performativity.

Our model thinks that completion is about 43% likely. I've shown the nine runners-up—all of them are reasonable completions. Every other word in the English language combined accounts for the missing 10%.


  1. For the techniically inclined, more information about the model can be found on its 🤗 Hugging Face page..
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Compare your work against the machine. Because the underlying model that powers ChatGPT is unfortunately not public, I'm using a model that is, called RoBERTa.1 It's what I'll be using for my analysis, although almost everything here should translate to any model trained the same way.

As it turns out, challenge is the correct answer here. The sentence reads

Butler is best known for their books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional notions of gender and develop their theory of gender performativity.

Our model thinks that completion is about 43% likely. I've shown the nine runners-up—all of them are reasonable completions. Every other word in the English language combined accounts for the missing 10%.


  1. For the techniically inclined, more information about the model can be found on its 🤗 Hugging Face page..
plot