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> And when I read the last line, I burst into tears. So does that make ChatGPT a soulful poet of rare ability? No. I’ve thought a lot about this and here’s what
by exitb 4y ago
> And when I read the last line, I burst into tears. So does that make ChatGPT a soulful poet of rare ability? No. I’ve thought a lot about this and here’s what I think is going on: I was primed for an emotional response (…) and ChatGPT used the language and methods of thousands of years of writing
But that’s what’s humans do, don’t they? I’m not a poet, but if I wanted to become one, I can hardly think of way that wouldn’t involve reading a lot of stuff written by others.
- p-e-w 4y agoIndeed. Arguments like this one immediately make me ignore everything else I just read. This is magical thinking that willfully overlooks how art works in reality. As if Shakespeare could have written Romeo and Juliet even if he had never interacted with another human, or read a single like of text written by someone else – just "from his soul". What utter nonsense.
- joshspankit 4y agoI think the crux of the author’s statement is in the definition of “what humans do”. You seem to be thinking that he means “read a bunch of prior work and come up with something similar” where I think that the author meant something more like “navigate the emotional landscape and write something that evokes emotions in others”.