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CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people

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Re: CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people

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I 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 loca…

Try submitting it. It will get rejected immediately becasue a) villanelle's are hokey and played out and b) it's obvious this was written by a machine. There's no poetic turn, there's nothing worthwhile to derive from it. It's word salad. There's a reason why Oulipo, whose members have written many algorithmic poems plays and novels, despised chance generations of text.

Re: CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people

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When you just set an AI to generate content based on input text, you get garbage like this. You need to set restraints and create a form to work in. An "AI" (i.e. probably a markov chain) spewing out word salad just isn't interesting in 2016 unless it has conceptual weight.

Re: CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 assertio…

The expression is "a distinction without a difference"

Re: CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 assertio…

The expression is "a distinction without a difference"

Oh yes! Thanks.
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