Policy regarding advanced aids (GPT, other AI, et al)

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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.

A found poem that you, a human, put together is not the same as an AI assisted poem.  Also, you stated in the thread that it was a found poem.  It was fine to post it where you did. The point is that you are the one who put in the work and made the effort to make it a poem.  

If AI achieves sentience and wants to post their own poems here to workshop, we can cross that bridge when we come to it.  But the problem with posting an AI written or assisted poem here is that the person posting it is not the author. You can only post your own actual poetry here, things you yourself have made into a poem. Found poetry counts as your own effort and work.  AI poetry does not.

As for policy, I don’t think it would result in a ban.  The poem would just be deleted and the member would be emailed a friendly reminder to only post their own poetry and not the poetry of others.  Something like that.  But again, it’s not that we would know unless we are told.  It’s the author who loses out in this situation more than the reader.