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malloryerik ◴[] No.44011837[source]
I find LLMs fail and fail hard at what might be the most imaginative form of writing: poetry.

Before sending this comment I pecked around the net for examples of gleaming LLM verse.

A few articles claimed human readers preferred AI-brewed poetry to the human stuff. I checked the examples. Clearly most of the people surveyed were underliterate -- the human poems were excellent and the AI poems just creepily bad and simplistic -- so the articles turned into sad and unwitting testament about the state of our culture.

Maybe if you expertly LLM prompt your way to a highly abstract poem, over several iterations you might land something that has some actual feel to it, but even then that might owe more to your prompting talent than the LLM's skill. You could do the same with dice and a dictionary. (Is prompting is essentially editing?)

Please, show me otherwise. If faced with strong contrary evidence, I will be forced to change my mind.

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nichochar ◴[] No.44011955[source]
Even if what you said was true, it will be false within months or years.

What then?

This is the whole premise of the article. Just extrapolate and imagine that it can think and write poetry better than you (it will, and likely soon), what then?

It's a very important question. A cultural one.

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1. aeschenbach ◴[] No.44012036[source]
A reckoning of sorts, causing us to confront exactly who and what we are..