If the aim is to land somewhere within the style of Edward Lear, then this is a job well done.
CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people
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#12I Ate Curly Fries And Shaker Fries has been stuck in my head all morning... and I am still waiting for the rain to abate.
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#13Reading the prose is like reading James Joyce, without the twee construction.
The poems I actually enjoyed, if only because they were funny to read out loud.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
That actually is incredibly beautiful. It's crazy to think that the machine that generated it was devoid of the emotions behind this assembly of words.
Well is it? At some point, either we become like machines, or the machines become like us. There is a limit to how many times we can redraw the lines.
The common distinction between machine and life seems arbitrary. Suppose for instance you had essentially infinite resources to design a machine that self-replicates by stealing blood from mammals, etc etc. You would end up with something very much like the mosquito. Why is it a machine only when man designs it?
This is perhaps more apparent with viruses. They aren't living per se, but are halfway there. The assertion that the virus is not a machine seems to be a difference without a distinction.
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#15Followers of computer generated literature may recall "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed" [1], ostensibly written by the program Racter [2] (though that authorship was never conclusively proven).
[1] http://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
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#16I really don't see the literary merit in a lot of these pieces, but obviously this is an interesting step forward...
"I Ate Curly Fries And Shaker Fries" wouldn't be out of place in well-regarded literary magazines. That slice-of-life with references-only-the-author-gets but maybe-sometimes-they-resonate-in-an-oblique-way-with-the-reader poetry is pretty common. Get an author with a decent bio[1] to submit it and I bet you could get a similar-quality machine-generated work published in Ploughshares or similar.
[1] MFA, edits a local poetry magazine with a circulation of 100, accepted submissions to some mid-level publications, one or two "chapbooks" out.
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#17Followers of computer generated literature may recall "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed" [1], ostensibly written by the program Racter [2] (though that authorship was never conclusively proven). [1] http://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter
Racter was quite impressive for its time.
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#18This reminds me of that AI-written screenplay earlier this year [1]... it's interesting, it may be progress, but it's partly carried by its presentation and production value and the promo value of "who" it was authored by. (This is also true, to a lesser degree, of human works.) Fingers crossed for progress.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-th...
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#19This is beautiful: The deeper the hustle the deeper the pain I wish I could play the Violin The thought of you is driving me insane Go to http://villanellebot.tumblr.com/post/148629267135/so-many-th... for the entire poem, and https://avoision.com/2015/08/26/villanelle-bot-poems-in-the-... to learn how it was done.
That actually is incredibly beautiful. It's crazy to think that the machine that generated it was devoid of the emotions behind this assembly of words.
Generating in the loosest sense.
Code up the format of a villanelle and find Twitter posts to fit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle
> VillanelleBot, created by Felix Jung, is a bot that composes villanelles using random posts from Twitter. Each line corresponds to a full post on Twitter
If you click on the line it goes through to the tweet e.g.
> i ate curly fries and shaker fries
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