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thank you for your words. there is a wonderful article in The Atlantic: "What Poets Know That ChatGPT Doesn’t," I recommend:

"ChatGPT cannot write poetry—or prose, for that matter—that is “the cry of its occasion,” as Wallace Stevens would have it, because there is no lived “occasion” other than the set of texts it can read. Neither can there be emotion recollected in tranquility. There’s no involuntary memory that’s stimulated by the taste of a madeleine. Creativity requires more than an internet-size syllabus or a lesson in syllables. So does essay writing, which is why, even though many acknowledge that ChatGPT can write passable high-school and undergraduate essays, I’m not concerned about that either.

The poems that ChatGPT writes are riddled with cliché and wince-worthy rhymes, but it isn’t just issues of quality that separate AI- and human-generated compositions. Poetry, whether in the style of Heaney or Dickinson or your journal from fourth grade, comes from the felt necessity to speak a truth, whatever kind of truth that might be, in a tongue that you’ve inherited or learned—or that has been imposed upon you by force or violence. That’s obvious to anyone who, for reasons they can’t fully explain, sits down and organizes their words into a pattern that’s slightly different from the language they use at the dinner table."

poems, after all, are fiery lines.

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Mar 4, 2023Liked by Radha Marcum

I enjoyed reading this special newsletter today. Mark Rothko keeps popping up in my readings this week.

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Mar 4, 2023Liked by Radha Marcum

As I start my writing day, your newsletter features often inspire and energize me. Here, I loved Graham's on AI and what human-authored poetry's task is. Thank you!

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The anxiety of artistic AI seems to be coming out this week. I read a really good piece from Some Flowers Soon (https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/smoothing-google) that studied specifically the flaws in AI poetry.

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