It is the Year of AI. In the past few months in San Francisco, I have seen a ballet about AI (in which AI is a sort of Pandora’s Box) as well as an opera (actually an older operetta, Cinderella, in which AI was uneasily squeezed into the plot.) The latter was accompanied by a talk about AI, in which I heard that food preparation will be a thing of the past, and we will have more spare time for…well, whatever humans do. (Probably half the audience lives on take-out, but no matter.) I also heard a composer/DJ claim that AI has enabled him to produce “a song per day” as well as all his marketing copy. In ten years, he promised, we’ll all produce our own soundtrack with our own music, films, you name it.
Interesting article, Carla! Have you read/listened to Tim Green's interview with Sasha Stiles, a poet who uses AI in her work? I was extremely skeptical, but I found she made many persuasive points, as well as being a fascinating person. I like how you address the cento and erasure poems here, too. Art has always incorportated a certain amount of borrowing, tweaking or even outright theft. But AI may be different in kind and also orders of magnitude.
Interesting article, Carla! Have you read/listened to Tim Green's interview with Sasha Stiles, a poet who uses AI in her work? I was extremely skeptical, but I found she made many persuasive points, as well as being a fascinating person. I like how you address the cento and erasure poems here, too. Art has always incorportated a certain amount of borrowing, tweaking or even outright theft. But AI may be different in kind and also orders of magnitude.