I wrote this with ChatGPT…

Laptop showing ChatGPT

I wrote this with ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!
I got some help from Grammarly
AI-AI-OH!
With an adverb here and a metaphor there
here a verb, there a verb, everywhere a verb verb
all thanks to chat GPT
AI-AI-OH!

I wrote this with ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!
I got some help from Grammarly
AI-AI-OH!
with a simile here, synecdoche there
adjectives adjectives, no time to be objective 
all thanks to ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!

I wrote this with ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!
I got some help from Grammarly
AI-AI-OH!
With some purple prose here, purple prose there
purple prose, purple prose, never been so verbose
all thanks to ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!

I wrote this with ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!
I got some help from Grammarly
AI-AI-OH!
With some anguish here, and some agony there
agony and anguish, pity and terror
all thanks to ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!

I wrote this with ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!
I got some help from Grammarly
AI-AI-OH!
With emotions here and commotion there,
here a sigh, there a sigh
written in tranquility
all thanks to ChatGPT
AI-AI-OH!

Now, is the poem I actually asked ChatGPT to write:

“Write a satirical poem about AI-generated poetry.”

ChatGPT said:

O Muse of Silicon: A Satirical Ode to AI Poetry

Behold the bard with circuits wired,
By code composed, not soul inspired.
Its verses flow in metric grace—
With zero heart, but perfect pace.

A thousand prompts, a million rhymes,
It churns out odes a thousand times.
No need for coffee, doubt, or dread,
It’s never drunk, it’s never read.

It writes of love it’s never felt,
Of sorrow born of zero guilt.
It weeps for loss it cannot know—
Its tears are just a data flow.

“Oh human soul!” it dares to scrawl,
“I too have climbed emotion’s wall!”
But when it speaks of death and fate,
It misspells grief at line eight.

It imitates with clever flair,
A poet’s sigh, a thinker’s stare.
Yet every line, though finely spun,
Feels like a laugh without the fun.

The critics cheer: “How deep! How grand!”
While poets weep and wring their hands.
For who can match this tireless brute,
That types with speed and lacks dispute?

But pause, dear friend, before despair—
A chatbot can’t grow chestnut hair.
Nor can it watch the dusk alone,
And weep when stars remind of home.

So let it rhyme, and let it rage,
Let silicon invade the page.
But know, when all the bytes are through,
It still can’t feel the way you do.

Which do you prefer? What do you think about the AI revolution? I’d be interested to hear your comments!

Ingrid

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  1. I sincerely believe we should boycott AI due to the ethical issues.

    They’ve been trained with a total disregard of copyright.

    To be creative is to be human. To be human is to be creative. AI is robbing us of that, little by little- and people are not noticing that.

    The computer centres where AI is hosted are huge, have immense power and water requirements. They’ve are now accelerating climate heating.

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    1. I have noticed a huge push towards AI in all of the technologies I use which has grown exponentially over the last few months. I disable it whenever I can, as I don’t like being told what to write while I’m still trying to compose!

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  2. I wring my hands and rest them over my chest to reassure my heart we’re not to be fooled. ( AI AI OOOOH! )
    And how long did it take Chap to create that? No time, I’m sure. Incredible!
    But if you’d told me you wrote this amazing analytical poem I would never doubt. (You’re Shakespeare’s daughter).
    This robot has no idea of what it is but it’s logical prowess is exxtra-ordinary! (Double xx) Superlative!
    And sad thing is I’ve seen examples like these passed as human work on Medium mainly. They impress the socks out of me! But those peeps are digging their own graves and ours too. How did we get here? No stopping it now. Thanks for the disclosure, Ingrid. I will stay on my corner for as long as I can. (If I ever try to pass work like that it’d mean I’ve lost my marbles and moral compass. And no one would believe me 🤣 because I’m just Selma, the plebeian 🎭 ). God help me! Be well dear one. Hugs.

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  3. Everything Kim said. I have never used it. I have never had the urge to use it. I finally managed to turn it off on Word. I see a lot of people use it to “generate” art. I’m not a fan. That said, I know people who use it, not for creative writing or art, but to help sort through material on studies. It’s not something I would do. There was a recent paper from the current regime here that was full of errors–citations to fake articles and such–used as a basis for the brain worm guy’s medical recommendations. Speculation is that it was written using ChapGBT.

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      1. It is a definite problem in schools and colleges!
        I’m glad I’m not teaching now or asking for articles. I had adults with advanced degrees sending me plagiarized material. (I can understand an accidental forgetting to cite, but this was multiple times.) I can’t imagine now with ChatGPT!

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      2. The really sad thing is that people won’t bother to learn the art of writing, so that writing itself will become dehumanised. Hopefully some of us will still choose to do it because we enjoy the craft!

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    1. Thank you, Ron. Though it felt like opening Pandora’s Box, I thought after writing the first one it was only fair to let the AI write the second.

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  5. I love your poem, Ingrid, and the way you have reinvented AI-AI-OH! Absolutely delightful. As for the second, it looks about right for an AI-generated poem. The algorithm is trained on structure and struggles to break away, though I think it’s cute it reassures us in the final paragraph that our humanity is our saving grace.

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  6. I love your clever poem, Ingrid. Thank you for a post about AI. 💕

    The AI-generated poem is better than I expected, but still a fraud, trying to ingratiate itself with insincere flattery in the final verse.

    I will continue to write my poems independently. I have free Grammarly, and am grateful when it catches typos, but I reject most of its suggestions. It is trying to take all the color out of speech, can’t distinguish idioms or humor, and thinks everything we write should be formal speech.

    I have explored AI on WordPress to evaluate poems after they are finished. It has not been very helpful. In a poem with counted syllables, it often suggests adding adjectives or articles. It clearly has not been trained to write a haiku!

    Once I needed a photo and could not find it, so I tried to generate it with AI. I asked for a large live oak tree draped in Spanish moss blooming with green-tassle flowers. It produced an image with blooms that looked like four-foot-long donkey tails hanging all over it! 🤣

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    1. Thank you for sharing your AI experiences, Cheryl! I too think they are a (long?) way off grasping the nuances of human speech! I also found the AI poem a little creepy! 🤖

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  8. That is quite interesting. Sammi showed me ChatGPT a while back when I was visiting her, but I haven’t revisited it since. Of course, I prefer poems written by human poets. Though, as the technology becomes more prevalent, how will we know? I like to believe I can sense a certain energy from lines created by human minds and emotions. If you asked the program the same question again, would it give you a different poem?

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  9. Haha . the first one is much more interesting – There is a deeper silence within from where creativity stems that AI can never replicate . AI relies on data, but cannot gauge consciousness

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  13. Ai created some funny poetry here. Personally I’m not really a fan but one could use it to create a prompt or idea or help you out when you are stuck or to get the old creative juices flowing again in case one has writers block 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  14. Actually it was pretty good, Ingrid but every ounce of me truly is annoyed that we are in this new space of AI taking over! I haven’t used it but I know others that do and maybe for some applications it works well but I don’t love this for poetry and thoughts m. Why have a brain 🧠 if we don’t use it! I’ve never used it once and don’t intend to… time will tell. Never say never guess!
    🩷

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    1. It has certainly provoked a lot of debate! I don’t see the point using it to ‘compose’ at all – it’s only regurgitating work it has stolen in the first place!

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  15. My latest satirical collection of poems and fiction pokes fun at AI robots creating chaos (The Lost Book of Zeroth). I agree about the overuse of AI. It’s an immature technology that requires regulation. However, AI is learning too fast. Some code writers experimented with having AI write poetry. Their book, called I Am Code, is very interesting. The preface explains the code writers’ methods. I don’t think the poems are award-winning, but I read an article definitely trying to promote bias for AI art by claiming people love AI poetry better than human-generated poems. How crazy is that?

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  16. Thank you Ingrid for putting it out there. And for testing ChatGPT on the poem. Very interesting read. Despite the fact that AI can write poetry and any other written material very well (due to its capacity of many brains and lives), I don’t feel there is need for people to panic and crucify AI.

    If we love the process of writing poetry I don’t see why we would use AI to write it for us instead. Perhaps only to test it’s capacity, as you presented here. Poetry is still a very fine art, and a deep journey of self discovery.

    AI has entered our awareness and lives not too long ago. And already made some big waves. Let’s let AI do what it is designed to do best. To assist us, humans. These are not machines turned enemies. We can love them or not, but they are here to stay. So let’s learn to accept them as partners. And the choice is up to us – to use them or not. Otherwise we are like the story of Don Quixote fighting the windmills…
    In essence poetry is self expression and a lens through which we look at the world around us. There is no need to worry. Let’s just continue writing and evolving through our own poetry. Be well and stay creating.

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    1. Great answer! Thanks for your comment. I like to think there is something about human-created art that AI will never be able to capture, not being human. Only time will tell…

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