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“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” Jean Baudrillard
“Shall I compare thee to a silicon chip?” is my response to the debate on authors using AI, ChatGPT, to write books. It has the title Artificial – that’s a clue. My response to the acronym is that AI = Absence of Integrity.
AI Can Do A Sonnet But It Can Never Be Shakespeare Don't you come in here with your 4.5% learning ability or your 3.1% of understanding, a 2.9% capacity to do - what? Ha, just 3.25% ability to make something. Oh, yeah, you can predict, even do narrow repetitive data entry tasks, you certainly cannot write authentically or speak with integrity an original idea. You're just a code, and clever as that is (and it is), you are only ever a series of patterns. Don't get me wrong (or started), I like you as my calculator, finicky fractions boggle my mind, but you can never be my poet. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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‘AI = absence of integrity’ I like that and I shall remember it.
I read a poem written by chatGPT yesterday, it wasn’t half bad and that scared me, but it did seem to lack humanity, or maybe that’s my bias because I knew it was written by AI, perhaps if I thought it was written by a human I’d feel differently, I’m not sure.
Either way, I agree with the last line of your poem. Where would we be if AI replaces us in the realm of creativity?
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I have read a couple of pieces but they were very syncopated, sterile. And a haiku I found was stilted. But I wonder that you’re right – it may be my prejudice – if I didn’t know it was AI maybe I would feel differently. Many thanks Rae
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I don’t understand why anyone would want to have a computer write their poems. What’s the point?
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Exactly, such a nonsense
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks so.
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🙂
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I agree!
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Thank you Lynn
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here’s my take: https://madhatterpoetry.com/2023/04/23/no-lol/
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It would be fun to have AI write a poem about how it was inferior to Shakespeare.
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I’d sure like to read that one 🙂
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Well said Paul.
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Thank you very much Rupali
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True poetry stems from emotion. No AI will be able to fully recreate the complex contradictions of the human condition.
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Yes indeed Bridgette, I see it it as cheap and saccharin, fine for car washes, ticket dispensers but not for genuine affective writing. Thank you for sharing.
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Very well written and totally agree
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