Poet Wanted; No AIs Need Apply!
“ Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.”
- David Parnas
I object!
As an aspiring poet, I am really, truly irritated and massively annoyed when people post poetry online unattributed.
Did they write it?
Who wrote it? Or, should I ask what wrote it...?
I absolutely hate that—from now on—I'll be suspecting that a machine wrote the poem I'm reading...
We have entered the danger zone...
Will it from now on be incumbent on us poets to deny that a machine has written what we publish?
Heaven help us!
Which one wrote the poem? (source)
~Poet Wanted; No AIs!~
by Duncan Cary Palmer
(NOT an AI)
First Published on NOSTR
06 August 2023
~
Today I happened to pass by
Miss Gherity's Tea Room.
A posted notice caught my eye
Below her nom de plume:
"Poet Wanted—Not AI"
Is what the headline said.
"Intelligent, not Artificial"
So the subtext read.
I found myself in full accord
With what the poster stated.
How could a golem ever feel
What my heart's contemplated?
A robot's but an artifact,
While I'm a son of God.
I'd rather read a single word
Composed by flesh and blood.
For iambic pentameter—
I care not how sublime—
Banged out by inorganic brains
Is just not worth my time.
No one wants a soulless poem
Cluttering their head.
Inspiration comes with breath;
Not from machinery dead.
*FIN*
FOR THE RECORD:
I am a living, breathing poet... NOT an AI!
Who (What?) Wrote It? (source)
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