AI Battles

Posted on by Reena Saxena

“Doff your hat to novelists for fleshing out characters from thought patterns, and screenplay writers for extending it to real life interactions.

All poetic thought is abstract, and poets are escapists. They seek flexible spaces where they can fashion things out of nothing, there is room for interpretation and nobody could blame them for being factually or technically wrong.”

ChatGPT is audacious enough to tell me this on being asked to write an abstract poem.

Is it a personal attack on my limited capabilities, or a compliment? For I can create things out of nothing, but a software needs inputs.

Six Sentence Stories

26 thoughts on “AI Battles”

  3. “For I can create things out of nothing, but a software needs inputs.”

    That’s it right there, Reena. There is no replacement, no “better than” man’s mind and individual creativity. AI is regurgitation, a reassembling, if you will, of words and scenario.
    Emotion. Where does poetry come from, abstract or otherwise? Emotion.

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  8. Surely the most telling phrase in your Six is the least accessible to AI:

    “They seek flexible spaces where they can fashion things out of nothing…

    Thought provoking Six

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