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Just for fun, I had ChatGPT rewrite your comment as a poem. Here’s the result: ———— My logic may be choppy, but I’m not yet sold, That popular sentiment shoul
by MR4D 2y ago
Just for fun, I had ChatGPT rewrite your comment as a poem. Here’s the result:
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My logic may be choppy, but I’m not yet sold,
That popular sentiment should be the gold,
For judging culture's worth or depth or art,
When most have seen so little, played no part.
The average person, read just a hundred lines,
While those who love the craft cross many signs,
With pages turned, they gain a richer view,
That shapes what art they’ll seek, and how they choose.
The study’s neat, but here’s what I believe:
The crowd enjoys the safe, the bland, the brief—
The 50% grey, inoffensive way,
The formulaic poems that softly sway.
I don't read much myself, I must admit,
But even I might find that AI's wit
Could speak in ways that sound like common sense,
But lacks the depth of art's true recompense.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoThis is a great example of a clearly very bad poem that would sound "good enough" to people. Some things rhyme, but there's very clearly no plan.
- glitchc 2y agoThat definition covers 90% of popular hip-hop, pop and r&b.
- archagon 2y agoI would argue that 99% of popular songs have fairly poor quality lyrics (though it doesn't really matter with regard to artistic merit of the finished product). Singer-songwriters in folk-adjacent genres such as Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, and Don McLean come closest to actual poetry IMHO.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y agoYeah, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, lines are very clunky and sound horrible read aloud with oddly placed syllables. The "view" and "choose" rhyme is horrible (the 3rd line's first rhyme is barely a rhyme at all). The line breaks are just as bad with poor examples of enjambment.
- mda 2y agoDo you think this is a good poem by any measure? Imo it is terrible.
- MR4D 2y agoI think that most people would call it a good poem due to its rhyming and simplistic structure. It’s definitely not Beowulf. I’m not a poetry expert, but even I can tell it’s at something like a 5th grade level.
- jamespo 2y agoWas this with a Vogon plugin?
- MR4D 2y agoNo. Straight ChatGPT. I wasn’t even logged in.
- jackyinger 2y agoHmm, I’m not convinced. That’s just the comment in the guise of poetry. There are a bunch of dangling implications in this “poem” where a real master would weave the implications together. I guess I’d also say it is not only doing the right thing that counts, one must also be doing it for the right reason. AI “art” is mimicry, burdened by the inevitable mundanity of the majority of its training corpus. The avant garde remains exclusively the domain of a comparative handful of forward thinking humans, in my humble opinion. Or said another way: AI art is kitschy, and I don’t think it can escape it.
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- MR4D 2y ago“Kitschy”. Seems like a perfect word for that!
- glitchc 2y agoThis is great, much better than expected. ChatGPT makes LLMs venerated.
- smitelli 2y ago> I don't read much myself, I must admit, Just a boorish observation: It had a golden opportunity to weave the word `shit` in there and yet it did not.
- eesmith 2y agoJust for fun, I also rewrote the comment as a poem: Perhaps my logic flounders, but I'm unconvinced That popular opinion can be the test Of how we should judge our culture's best. Can we who think that poetry's a bore, And haven't even read five score, Place ourselves above those who adore? I laugh at memes and share the swill. Of course I like the muck and fill At the bottom of the hill.