Anecdote incoming - I read poetry, weekly if you will, over about 15 years now.
I also play with LLM's often, for creative side projects and work commercially with them (prompt engineering stuff)
I don't find it far fetched that individual poetry can be indistinguishable at times when AI generated. I was asking it to write in iambic pentameter (sonnets) and it consistenly got the structure right, it's approach to the provided themes were as complicated or glib as I wanted. But that's all subjective right, which leads me to my main point.
My view of poetry over the years, has always been centred around the poet, the poet living in a time and place. As a generalisation most people buy into the artists life because it may represent some part of themself.
If someone managed to write an intriguing corpus of texts using LLM's that was extolled, I think that would almost be besides the point. What is important is the narrators life, ups and downs, joys and woes. Their ability to convey a memorable story even heavily relying on AI would still be impressive. Anyway sounding a bit wanky I will stop lol
(I do think LLM's write a little too perfect and that is easy to think it is not human, but you can kinda prompt them to throw in errors too so who knows)
I also play with LLM's often, for creative side projects and work commercially with them (prompt engineering stuff)
I don't find it far fetched that individual poetry can be indistinguishable at times when AI generated. I was asking it to write in iambic pentameter (sonnets) and it consistenly got the structure right, it's approach to the provided themes were as complicated or glib as I wanted. But that's all subjective right, which leads me to my main point.
My view of poetry over the years, has always been centred around the poet, the poet living in a time and place. As a generalisation most people buy into the artists life because it may represent some part of themself.
If someone managed to write an intriguing corpus of texts using LLM's that was extolled, I think that would almost be besides the point. What is important is the narrators life, ups and downs, joys and woes. Their ability to convey a memorable story even heavily relying on AI would still be impressive. Anyway sounding a bit wanky I will stop lol
(I do think LLM's write a little too perfect and that is easy to think it is not human, but you can kinda prompt them to throw in errors too so who knows)