Well can you, Veeky Forums?
Well can you, Veeky Forums?
Ayden Flores
Andrew Jones
The more 'impressionistic' the poem the more likely it was written by a machine. Or an inorganic machine, rather. The poems written by humans all had a conceptual thread that ran the entire length and looped back around to tie it all together, while the two written by computers were disjointed and failed to hold together. The sudden breaking off of a thought over an enjambed line is the biggest give away.
I missed on two because I was expecting tricksiness. It's actually much easier if you're just searching for honesty.
Matthew Myers
I didn't even read them, and still guessed 4 out of 6 right going only off what the previous two answers were.
Lucas Campbell
It has began!
Also I would like to worship the poetry of our new overloads, let Shakesbot and RoboHomer take it, lord knows we fucked it up.
Henry Allen
I got 5 of 6
Austin Morgan
Got all of them correctly. Human poems concentrate on a motive, machine don't. The third and sixth sonnet describe plants, and it's impossible for a program to do that with such detail and artfulness. The first sonnet is given away by an effective full stop in the middle of a verse. Repetition of "this" in the first two verses causes suspicion as well.
>impressionistic
I just reread a poem by Mallarmé for comparison and it actually makes more sense than these machine poems.
Jayden Harris
This.
I got one wrong, the joy one, simply because I thought it was too shitty to be written by a human.
You can also tell by some of the word choices like cancer growth.Until we get true AI, computers can only be so versatile in language. The computer itself does not know English, it just follows a set of rules. The cancer growth makes sense in context of the poem, unless it was just plagiarizing and taking snippits of other work (Which I'd hope it isn't), then it's obvious when you get something obscure like that in context that it's written by a human.
Thomas Miller
There's a musicality to the human-written ones that is lacking in the machine- generated, too. Computers can reproduce sensical sentences fairly well, and even produce metaphor, but they seem to be unable, so far, to anticipate how strings of words will sound together, and how prosody alters big the meaning and the emotional impact.
Ian Robinson
That's exactly what happened to me! Got 5/6. That Joy poem was a mess.
Glad they picked decent poems for the most part though, it wouldn't be hard to have a program shit out high school tier poems.
Elijah Brooks
Yes, easily. The artificial sonnets lacked any sort of focus, finesse, musicality, or actual sentence structure--things that no current AI can even begin to replicate.