To each their own, but I find the idea of ai-generated poetry sad as hell. I simply can’t see poetry as a collection of evocative words judged without context, in a vacuum— is poetry not both an activity and a relationship to most people? A person deftly portraying some difficult-to-express facet of the human experience and just maybe it viscerally strikes a chord with other people? I just don’t understand how people don’t value the fundamental humanity of that process. Even prose. James Baldwin stories, word for word, would land a hell of a lot differently if they were written and published by Hemingway.
I 100% agree. I am inclined to think an AI may be able to develop a sense of what words carry in future -- they can analyse it -- but it still lacks real experience.
Plus their creative output in literary quality is dreary, dull, and dire. That's why I was so curious for the OP to share examples.
