AI and Poetry

There has been a lot of discussion recently about AI generated poetry and how we should deal with it. There doesn't appear to be an easy answer as to how to identify it.

Call me lazy, but personally I'm not even going to try to deal with it. It gives me a headache!

Here is an interesting article about AI poetry and the human response to it.

AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably

From the article:

[A study] found that AI-generated poems were rated more favorably in qualities such as rhythm and beauty, and that this contributed to their mistaken identification as human-authored. Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.

...AI without human intervention or specialized fine-tuning. Like AI-generated paintings and faces, AI-generated poems are now “more human than human”: we find that participants are more likely to judge that AI-generated poems are human-authored, compared to actual human-authored poems. Contrary to previous studies, we also find that participants rate AI-generated poems more highly than human-written poems across several qualitative dimensions. However, we confirm earlier findings that participants evaluate poems more negatively when told that the poem is generated by AI, as opposed to being told the poem is human-written.

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Craig Cornish Date: 12/11/2024 5:25:00 AM further - AI will always be better at "average" anything and will always be faster because its thought process is totally undistracted. In poetry it will always be perfect at meter, rhyme, and form, why, because meter, rhyme, and form are static/fixed - repetition is its bailiwick where creativity is its Achilles' heel. It can only improvise with "givens" (in the box). Once improvisation comes into play - once emotional intangibles and knee-jerk unpredictables are put to pen they will lose, why, because those are totally new - AI has no emotion, it's Vulcan if you will, yet it will win every logical/average process and lose at Love, as we often do. Login to Reply

Craig Cornish Date: 12/10/2024 7:38:00 PM I find it interesting that the same evaluations (subjective opinions) can, and have been applied for quite some time. As a general rule people like more easy to understand translations/interpretations of anything including our own personal poetry within our own families. All of this is like PI/a mirror within a mirror that has no answer, because what is better is a subjective evaluation by whom? The more we can, as individual poets, create feelings and emotions beyond our words, AI can never truly replace us and simply be eloquent pretenders - the frauds that are discovered not long after the honeymoon is over... Login to Reply

Tom Woody Date: 12/10/2024 3:26:00 PM I read something similar to this. It was bound to happen. Not gonna make some people happy. Me? I got badda fish to fry! Login to Reply