10-10-2023, 03:04 AM
I have a thread of found poetry here in Intensive. No one said anything to me at the time, so I wasn't aware that it could only be in Misc. Please move as necessary.
Found poetry is like scrapbooking. I think it's a valid outlet for the creative impulse as long as you're clear with your audience what's happening. I guess the difference is that the person who's quotes I'm cobbling together isn't tailoring their speech for poetry, and that is what makes it challenging. It would be different if you asked AI to write a poem and then just chose your favorite bits and served them up. I vote for a separate forum for cobbled together, hodgepodge human-AI collaboration tracks. That way people get to play with their new toys but everyone's clear on what's allowed where. As to AI assistance in the workshops, wouldn't it depend on the nature of it? If you're using it to help with meter like a glorified spell-check...I feel a certain anxiety that people won't try to understand the underlying craft, much as my parents would give me that look if I used a calculator. But, it's hardly bannable.
I don't really think it's a matter of do we need an AI policy, but rather where do we start. This is not going to be a one-and-done policy.
Found poetry is like scrapbooking. I think it's a valid outlet for the creative impulse as long as you're clear with your audience what's happening. I guess the difference is that the person who's quotes I'm cobbling together isn't tailoring their speech for poetry, and that is what makes it challenging. It would be different if you asked AI to write a poem and then just chose your favorite bits and served them up. I vote for a separate forum for cobbled together, hodgepodge human-AI collaboration tracks. That way people get to play with their new toys but everyone's clear on what's allowed where. As to AI assistance in the workshops, wouldn't it depend on the nature of it? If you're using it to help with meter like a glorified spell-check...I feel a certain anxiety that people won't try to understand the underlying craft, much as my parents would give me that look if I used a calculator. But, it's hardly bannable.
I don't really think it's a matter of do we need an AI policy, but rather where do we start. This is not going to be a one-and-done policy.