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> For her powers, I disagree, I think here these things would be more of gags in a season 1 context and not be definitively reality bending and more of a cartoon "gags". 
My counterpoint is the scene where Rainbow Dash flees from Pinkie Pie into Applejack's barn: we see Pinkie Pie clearly keeping up with Rainbow Dash and we know Pinkie Pie is close behind because they don't have really any time to prepare for her being there, to come up with a better cover or ruse or such. I would posit that Pinkie's powers are actually meant to straddle the line between cartoon gag and legitimate in-universe ability, a manifestation of hammerspace powers as it were. 
> Now keep in mind I do look at things from a similar lens where I try to figure out how cartoon gags work in canon and certainly latter canon did imply more to this.
Agreed - in this case I'd simply delineate between cases where Pinkie's actions have little direct tangible consequences, which can be safely disregarded as mere gags, and then cases like her managing to keep even pace with Rainbow Dash, where if we try and argue that Pinkie isn't LITERALLY that fast in the scene, the continuity  of the scene all breaks down. 
> ...wow, has it been over a month since I was last in this thread? Goodness, though I know IRL stuff happens to both of us
I think this time of year always gets busy. It always has for me at least, ever since we moved, which happened in autumn of 2009. Not long before this show started, actually. 
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> Plus or minus my partial temptation of Twilight Sparkle being Spike's mother somehow by creating life in the egg.
The examiners would have had to provide an unfertilized egg then, which if they had done so knowingly would mean they essentially want Twilight to become a parent just to pass an entrance exam? Wet nurses aren't biological mothers and yet there's the tradition of 'milk-kinship' between children reared by the same wet nurse, oftentimes related to neither child and neither child related to eachother - in a similar way Twilight, who was present to hatch the egg and potentially aided curing a late or dormant hatching condition in Spike's egg (which could partially explain his diminutive form compared to other dragons of similar age later on) is Spike's mother in a much more significant and important way than the question of Spike's genetic ancestry, although both remain important to Spike. I prefer Twilight being adoptive, personally. It allows the show to explore those sort of themes and issues. That's not to say that I dislike your idea, rather that on the whole I tend to prefer the show's approach. 
>  So, my thoughts on this is less chatGPT and more like running the leanest and somewhat stupid LLM that I can get on the best CPU I have as a glorified spell checker that would catch obvious grammatical mistakes but not change whole sentences
Perhaps, and I'll admit I find egregious grammar and spelling mistakes hard to swallow when reading something, but by that same token there's a very similar quality to AI-written stuff, an instant sense that I'm reading something written by a marketing department that feels at least as 'off' as something with awful spelling and grammar. If one were to use chatgpt for this purpose I'd make sure to prompt it to make minimal changes, and to split changes into mere suggestions that it lists in a bullet point for you to then apply yourself, and then actual changes it applies to the text that you provide it.