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AI writes better song lyrics than 80 percent of the songs I hear.
Jack and Jill went up the hill
and each one had a quarter
LOL...
It’s because AI will never plumb the depths of terrible, boring, human inconstancy and lack of talent that humans are capable of!
A few years back, a conservative friend and I went to Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, a city right up there with Berkeley, Ithaca, and Madison with regards to its leftism.
They had a place outside an Au Bon Pain (now defunct) that was frequented by chess players, and that night, there was a “Poetry Slam” going on, so we stopped and watched for a few minutes.
There was a girl, dressed all in black, faintly resembling Ally Sheedy in the movie “The Breakfast Club” reciting a “poem”:
(Spoken in beatnik tones) “...and then he grabbed me and threw me down. And he F***** me. And then again. And...”
We looked at each other with this shared expression of “Can you believe these effing lunatics?” and then, looking at the people sitting next to us watching intently, a guy, stroking his chin and listening as if it were the most profound thing he had ever heard.
No.
Computers will never be as good at being terribly, offensively, bad at poetry as humans are.
It is our superpower!
I say the following as someone who has written poetry for the last 55 years, not expecting it to change the world.
There are two uncomfortable truths about poetry. The first is that most poetry sucks and is not worth the time to read it. The second is that the poetry that isn’t part of the previous sentence competes with more holistic art forms such as movies which are more easily accessed by the general public. The issue is not necessarily whether AI can write better poetry, but whether new poetry has a place in public life anymore.
And I thinks to myself
What a botiful world!
How do we know the poll and resulting article isn’t AI?
That’s because AI puts so much heart into it.
Human created poems have depth, complexity and vocabulary.
More bowls of salted peanuts are sold than bowls of caviar.