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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If it's literally indistinguishable from human poetry, about as many people want to read it as there are people wanting to read human poetry. And that's about 12.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t give a fuck if it surpasses human poetry to a focus group or if poetry is popular enough for you to care. I’m making a larger point that it’s a misuse of technology. Some things are pointless without a human personally taking time to craft it. We have loads of inefficiently produced things that exist because they’re “handmade” or came from the heart.

It’s like when Google screwed up during the Olympics with that commercial where Gemini made a little girl’s fan letter for an athlete. The whole point of a fan letter from a little girl is that it’s personal and took time. It’s not supposed to be perfect and efficiently produced. It could be 80% misspelled and written in crayon and be more meaningful than anything a machine produces.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Literally dozens of them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poetry isn't for the one reading it, it's for the one writing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why publish books of it, then?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

So they don't have to get other jobs