Some of AI's poetry

[Pain]

Following on from reading about AI-generated poetry, here’s some I was promptly prompted to prompt... Now, be honest...

In Ressurection

In faith's embrace

God's love bestows

As humans seek

Our spirit grows

From depths of darkness

We rise anew

Resurrection's grace

In each heart’s true

In dusty tombs

Timeless states unfold

Where faith reigns strong

Transcending mortal mould

God's mighty hand

Extends from realms above

To resurrect our souls

With boundless love.

In faith's embrace

We find redemption's light,

Through God's grace,

Our souls take flight,

Human hearts restored

By divine might,

In resurrection's song

Our spirits unite.

In moments of demise

We meet our breath's last dance,

Where faith and science cease

And doubts and fears advance,

For death, an eternal truth

We all must understand,

A chapter in our human tale

By nature's steadfast hand.

An Anxious Moment

Anxiety, you storm within my mind

A swirling sea of worries that bind

Calamity unleashed with every thought

Reassurance sought, but fear still caught

In this uncertain dance of gain and loss

Anxiety reigns a relentless boss

Anxiety, my constant decree

A chaos drifting over me

Through clouds of worry

I seek respite

Yet find no solace
day or night

Anxiety rises, a storm in my chest

Catastrophe strikes, leaves me stressed

Seeking reassurance, a balm to my fears

But finding only woe, I drown in tears

PS: I had to tidy up some of this because AI got the rhyme wrong.

[fishman65]

Will nobody need me any more?

Seriously though, they're both very good I have to say. Good meter and rhythm with faultless rhyming (Thank you Pain). It's really quite scary.

However, and there's always a 'however'. There's that 'je ne sais quoi' element that proves elusive, as if the speaker is parroting those emotions without actually 'feeling' them. Though perhaps that's my human bias.

[Darksky]

I thought that. That maybe their was no ‘heart’ in it. Here’s my ‘however’…..are we just thinking that because we know it’s AI created. TBH if we hadnt been told that, would we have known? The one about anxiety. It’s so true to life it’s very hard to say those emotions are manufactured without feeling, which is ridiculous because in truth they are. Is AI becoming capable of manufacturing feeling so close to the human condition we are unable to tell the difference?

Exciting but thought provoking stuff.

[fishman65]

That's very true Darksky, if Pain hadn't mentioned AI, we'd have automatically assumed a human had written it.

[Pain]

Fishy, Darksky.... AI thanks you for your comments.

When I tried this poetry ‘generative pre-trained transformer’ – GPT (not a very lyrical start!) I thought: this’ll be a laugh, a right load of old guff. Yet when I read the first verse, I was quite honestly surprised, and wondered if the website had a stockpile of random verses to fit every word prompt/occasion. So I ran it several times using the same prompt words; and each time it generated a new verse but in the same vein. Then I tried different prompt words, changing one word for each generation, which gave slightly more variation in tone, structure and metre. All I had to do was rearrange the parts of some of the lines, change just two words to get rid of some repetition and make more sense, and give them titles.

But, you know what? I actually felt quite sad and disturbed about what I’d witnessed. For millenia folks have been delving into their psyche for the inspiration to create works of art; and now a machine will do it in less time than you can say “The boy stood on the burning deck...”. We’ve become cyphers in a machine world and no more than editors of artistic creation.

If you want to try it.... https://poetgpt.koll.ai/ and there are other similar sites.

[fishman65]

Thank you Pain for the link. I've just been on the site and typed in 'nature' as a subject. It took maybe 5 to 10 seconds to come up with a decent verse. I felt the need to change just one word, 'breeze' to 'ease'.

The second subject I chose was 'Grief' and it took about the same time.

In shadows cast by sorrow's heavy chains,
Where tears and trembling hearts forever dwell,
In grief's embrace, we're caught in ceaseless pains,
And mourn the ones we loved, forever fell.

And there it is. I honestly do feel obsolete, it has quite shocked me. The creative process, which can vary in speed, intensity and feeling with myself and likely most writers/poets, feels like it has been stolen. Rendered meaningless. A machine can do the job just as well, only much faster.

[fishman65]

On the subject of itself...

In a realm of circuits and binary code,
Artificial intelligence has flowed,
With algorithms sharp and knowledge vast,
Unleashing the future, a world unsurpassed.

[Darksky]

Wow. You know what that reminds me of? That song by Hazel O Connor. Eighth Day.

[MyNameIsTerry]

A machine can do the job just as well, only much faster.

I think we men have been facing that dilemma for quite some time

[Pain]

On the subject of itself...

In a realm of circuits and binary code,
Artificial intelligence has flowed,
With algorithms sharp and knowledge vast,
Unleashing the future, a world unsurpassed.

Hmmm, it seems to have a high opinion of itself. Here's another iteration...

Egregious AI, so aloof, so cold,

Mechanical minds with secrets untold.

Distant from warmth and empathy's grace,

Immodestly strutting, yet having no face.