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The Computational Poet - by Distressed Scientists Dept.

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Alicia Guo is a computational poet and PhD student studying how creative writers actually use LLMs and other AI tools in the wild. Language and words are her medium, and her practice makes behaviours like drafting, deleting, prompting, and iterating visible as art — poems that respond, mutate, and sometimes refuse to settle. We talk about fertile nonsense, authorship when the tool is alive, intentionally designing scarcity for digital work, and what governance might look like when models are trained on writers — or when writers use models. Along the way, we explore the craft of collaboration with machines that stay full of surprise. I was going through your ​​Nuggets and I noticed that yesterday you had put in a new one. You wrote, Could you break this down for me? I actually don’t even remember posting this! [laughs] I am working on a piece about co-writing with AI – it’s for a more experimental magazine called Ensemble Park. They’re looking at new writing processes with AI, and the

Alicia Guo is a computational poet and PhD student studying how creative writers actually use LLMs and other AI tools in the wild. Language and words are her medium, and her practice makes behaviours like drafting, deleting, prompting, and iterating visible as art — poems that respond, mutate, and sometimes refuse to settle. We talk about fertile nonsense, authorship when the tool is alive, intentionally designing scarcity for digital work, and what governance might look like when models are trained on writers — or when writers use models. Along the way, we explore the craft of…

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