Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?

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Abstract Literature, poetry, and other forms of noncommercial creative expression challenge the techno-instrumentalist approaches to language, predictive language generation, informing NLP (large natural processing models) such as GPT-3 or -4 well as, more generally, generative AI (text image, video, audio). Claims that systems automate expedite creativity reflect industry research priorities speed, scale, optimization, frictionlessness driving much artificial intelligence design application. But poetry will not optimize; process cannot be reduced a prompt. Some have noted literary creations generated augmented by at best can offer form without meaning; using GPT creation prompted Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” case study, this essay argues NLP’s generation what call algorithmic ahistoricity also, disturbingly, render meaning senseless. In doing so, GPT-3’s experiments are “failed” because they do meet some moving target standard, nor technological insufficiency, but it make harder for people name navigate their realities. The coda explores an example interlocutor engagement beyond optimization.

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عنوان ژورنال: American Literature

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['1527-2117', '0002-9831']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575077