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.
You’re right, AI will grab more data (right now, it’s so clumsy that it’s laughable._ But I think the underlying issues of borrowing from the past will not be different— and some may create fabulous centos, etc, from AI-software. But hey, I still write in a notebooks!
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.
You’re right, AI will grab more data (right now, it’s so clumsy that it’s laughable._ But I think the underlying issues of borrowing from the past will not be different— and some may create fabulous centos, etc, from AI-software. But hey, I still write in a notebooks!