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Write A Poem
When I write poems, when I start to depict the images
in my head, using a foreign language, I defeat ChatGPT.
“Write a poem. [A demand was given] A unique one.” [Instruction Received]
"To be a poet - "
I was told,
"You write poetry."
But perhaps one day,
GPT will get published
Not I.
I, still,
could not figure the difference out
with my mother tongue.
诗/诗歌 shī and shī gē, (poem and poetry)
were the answers from machines,
from their translations.
“Write a poem.” I was told.
but if I can not use a language
properly, fluently,
how can I be a poet, and write good poetry?
how could I create rhythms, rhymes,
like a skilled musician,
played in a high-class jazz bar?
I am a writer who is not well-read
and thus weaker than the machine.
how would you, as a human being, describe scenes like movies in your mind, if you lack vocabulary?
ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG
of the web -
said Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.
“So maybe,” I was thinking,
that I could be a spider, at first.
to be the master of the webs,
and the creator who can rule the webs.
but I failed and tried something else.
maybe I can write poetry in Chinese -
but I did not hear the sound, the lines in myself.
Perhaps
i am a
poet
only using
english
to
pull
my imagination
out
Perhaps
my language
is unique
because of
how
I digest
my
second
language.
And in the End,
i defeated the AI.
「Are you satisfied with my answer?
Click the items below to help us improve in the future」
{yes = 1} // {no = 0}
(Because of the order I lived my life
Isn’t experienced by the machine,
and the number of languages I know are countable.
and, the languages I know exclude any animal or computational,
or both, including,
Python.)
That was a very compelling story - I thought.
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This piece was inspired by a writing prompt in a summer session for creative poetry writing. It discussed the relationship between artist/writer and AI tools. The narrator is ambiguous, and it could be either an AI machine or a human narrator. The poetry utilized structural changes to identify different characters/narrators involved in this poetry.