about ai
I was thinking about AI
I was thinking about Gaia
I see AI in gAIa
I don’t like what I see
Both have soup of 10,000 things
Where Gaia perpetually blossoms
them in sensory splendor,
AI Frankensteins them into
soylent green’s sterile goo.
Tao Talk 
Well put. A friend calls AI the “world burning plagiarism machine.” Do you know that WordPress, by default, allows your content to be used to train AI models? That’s theft, and the setting to opt out is buried.
If you want to prevent the free use of your content by them for profit, then go to your Dashboard, and to Settings, then Reading and on that page, scroll to Site Visibility, and add a check mark to “Prevent third-party sharing for… ” (it explains below that, that the setting prevents AL model training). WP is sneaky. The placement in “Reading” makes no sense. They hid this setting deep in General, then before that, in Writing, so they move it around to prevent people from activating it. Kinda sleazy, if you ask me…
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Steve, I remember changing the settings awhile back. Further, I have a warning banner about AI not using my blog for training. That said… Last year I submitted some poems for an anthology and was informed by the host that, after screening, it was determined by a “AI filter” program that 2 lines of one of my poems were likely to have been written by AI. I informed the host I did not use AI, the host replied, “some of us use it to polish our work and that is ok but amazon won’t publish anything it has deemed to have been written or assisted by AI” (paraphrasing) The conclusion I came to was AI program had determined AI was used because it lifted it from my blog. I also learned that when you tell the truth and you are not believed and are asked to edit your creative work based on a lie that you don’t work with that person again. Sorry to belabor this comment, but I’m still agitated by it.
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Ah, I wonder if we talked about that setting before. Sorry, if we did.
You have every right to be agitated by having your work dismissed that way, when you’re so staunchly against the use of AI. I’d feel the same way!
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Not sure where I got the info on settings and I don’t think it can repeated too often if it was from you. Thank you for your validation on the accusation and censorship attempt.
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Thank you and you are welcome, Lisa.
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PS: It may well have been after an earlier discussion that I was prompted to add the note on my home page, “This website has been opted out from WordPress’s practice of providing others’ intellectual property, without
authorization or compensation, to train artificial intelligence models (AI, aka the “world-burning plagiarism machine”).” 🙏🏼
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:)
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Soup of 10,000 things…I love that line, Lisa. The image chosen here is very cool as well.
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Bruce, thanks so much. In daoism “all that is” is called the 10,000 things. I enjoyed putting the collages together for POPO. Fun to let the creative spirit run free.
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I have a bit of an odd opinion. I think AI forces authors and poets to go in insane directions that the algorithm can never predict. If we stay stuck in the rut, then we are never going to succeed in the face of the torrent. The evil behind the AI forces us to be better And forces us to push ourselves in harder directions.
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Aaron, I appreciate you sharing your opinion. I agree that will be the end game. For now I will be damned if I’ll dance to AI’s tune or in response to its threat. I don’t want to go bigger, better, harder, more outlandish, as that can be so overwhelming for a reader who is already overwhelmed with sensory overload.
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I think that’s fantastic. Everyone’s response to AI is going to be different. I think the big thing is to keep working hard, though and eventually things are going to be OK. We will all work out a solution, but it is going to be rough.
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Aaron, 100% in agreement with all you say here. I feel it creeping in and tainting everything it touches. It’s like a new toy to humans, but the cost will be huge. Not sure if you’ve seen how much $$ it costs to generate AI projects? It takes a tremendous amount of water also, water in places that need water for living things. I don’t know all of the deets but enough to scare me.
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p.s. If I am misperceiving your opinion, please say more so I can understand. I know you are a teacher and have more to say on the subject.
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I see plagiarized poetry quite a bit from AI. Most of it sounds like plastic. And it is missing the normal clumsiness that new poets have. I think AI sucks at postmodernism and post structural approaches to writing poetry. And it sucks at using strong verbs and loves to inundate the reader with adverbs. But it does minimalism very well, so I’m avoiding minimalism.
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Thank you for expanding your opinion, Aaron. I knew it would be instructive and insightful. You made me think of that quote about the fish and the bicycle: Poetry needs AI like a fish needs a bicycle :)
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So spot on!!! I like the way you used Gaia and AI.
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Thanks, Colleen.
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You’re welcome, Lisa.
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Brilliant Lisa! Very clever!
JIM
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:) <3
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Sterile vs life-giving. Closed vs open. Exactly. (K)
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truth
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