⚡️ Robots Write Experimental Poetry

but most of it is boring, and doesn’t add much – if anything

Poetry has a rich history; is GPT-3’s really so special? In today’s essay, Shira Abramovich, a poet with a degree in literary arts, places AI-generated poetry in context of a long tradition in experimental and computational literature, and provides a framework for thinking through the questions that matter when it comes to experimental poetry — AI-generated or otherwise. By Shira Abramovich In its period of limited release, GPT-3 has accumulated a dizzying list of bylines. It’s written for the Guardian, the New York Times’ Modern Love column, with oddly poetic results, and even included in…

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