The Best of Reason: 'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad

Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?

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The Best of Reason: 'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad

This week's featured article is "'AI Bullshit' Makes Poets Mad" by Leigh Stein.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

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[Rick James]

Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?

Huh? What a nonsense, dud question.

I taught little Timmy to write poetry. Years later, Timmy becomes an excellent poet. As Timmy's former teacher, I send Timmy an email, asking him to write me a poem. He does so.

I then publish Timmy's poem as my own.

Was that cheating?

[Social Justice is neither]

The real question is how much does Timmy owe you in perpetuity for the foundations you provided and the works you introduced him to that shaped his poetry.

[Chumby]

Magic 8 Ball says ask again later.