More Than Just Autocomplete
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More Than Just Autocomplete
An LLM’s calculation of the most likely sequence of words is the least likely way to create great writing
Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays
A poem, I would say, is the site where “hollow and void” poetry is tactically deployed in a physical and social context, in order to achieve a particular effect. The poem unites poetry with an intention. So yes, a language model can indeed (and can only) write poetry, but only a person can write a poem.
Allison Parish • Language models can only write poetry
The way poetry defamiliarizes language and seeks unique phrasings seems to scramble this software’s ability to sort text. Anyone who has read something produced by a large language model knows that it favors a bland and expected style, the sort of linguistic consensus that poets are trying to disrupt.