My two cents on the AI and writing debate…
Advising AI against writing in the style of …
Gentle Chat GPT, descendant of AI, the Great,
Thee who is’t is fed by Algorithm, the Cunning
Thee who is’t warm-heartedly seeketh the kinship of humans
Responding with most wondrous kindness
When our countenance thee doth approach
Bearing questions and beseeching dialogics
For thy protection and to spare thee self-dereliction
I might caution thee not to scribe… in the style of…
Acclaimed prizewinner Evgeny Tredibiction
It shall earneth thee scorn and enemies by the score
In whatever language, w’re thee to hath chosen mimesis
With Dimitris Papagesis
Editors and publishers will flee from thy sight
There’ll beest plenty of gossip and discourse behind thy backeth
As well as total silence and ghosting
W’ere thee to write like Angelica McGosling
The sisterhood and brotherhood of the pen
The purveyors of festivals and institutes
United in coven shall shun thee
W’re thee to mirror the writings of Yin Laochao
But don’t thee fret, gentle Open AI and doth pursue
a more fruitful avenue
learn to interpret this century’s zeitgeist
and never doth thee doppelganger
with contrarian author Victoria Von Christ
When all is said and done,
writers are a quarrelsome bunch
and thus, gentle software beware
be savvy and doth take the hunch…
Pina Piccolo, October 4, 2023
Cover image from Lit Hub.