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Oh thank you so much for writing this, and for linking Ernest Davis's paper. I saw a few of those headlines and I was mortified, as someone who is more annoyed than is healthy with GPT's futile and incredibly easy to recognise attempts at producing the illusion of poetry.
Looking at the collection of poems is just maddening. There is no way the difference isn't obvious to anyone who's ever willingly read a poem, and the authors of the paper must know it. Disgusting.
How do you tell? Well when you're reading something that's pretending to be text and you come across, say
the body has a natural wincing reaction.
So happy to be of service!
I'm honestly not sure that they know, unfortunately. I think that the authors might be the kind of people who have literally never thought about the arts in a meaningful way. If you've never spent a lot of time with these people, it can be really really difficult to imagine it because it's frankly fucking insane, but it's disturbingly common. Philip Agre has written wonderfully on this. He was once like that, and that essay describes his awakening.
I love how he describes the feeling.
I think that we've all experienced minor versions of this, like when you (re)read a difficult text and it finally clicks. It really is almost dizzying! Imagine doing it for all nontechnical fields.
This has been one of the best things I've read all year and I'm only as far as section 2.
He's really interesting!!! It seems like this awakening was maybe too intense for him, because he basically disappeared entirely and no one has heard from him since. Kind of a bummer of an ending.