Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent
Isabelle Levent
@isabellelevent
on metaphors for LLMs
Tech Ethics and
Our intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.
Tech Ethics and
Maybe the creative work is now to figure out ways to nudge AIs into being weird and interesting rather than producing inane imitations of the most ordinary human writing
Crawford elaborated in an interview. “When you have this enchanted determinism, you say, we can’t possibly understand this. And we can’t possibly regulate it when it’s clearly so unknown and such a black box,” she says. “And that’s a trap.”
“Our business has never been about the ease of creating imagery or the resulting volume. It is about connecting and cutting through.”
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.