Same, Denise. As an artist and writer I’m troubled by AI, with its ability to write novels and produce art. The art might be beautiful, but there’s nothing behind it- no human mind, no suffering, no inspiration, no soul, and no imagination. It’s missing the most important part of the creation! The same with writing - and I worry that AI will become so popular that those of us who suffer to create things with our God-given talents, to partner with Him in such a way, will find ourselves crowded out in the future. I find myself thinking that there will be a great deal of human suffering coming, with those who can’t find a way to survive and feel worthwhile amidst a world of computer talent. Even if AI becomes that strong, those of us who actually create need to carve out a corner of the world to work with God in and support each other’s gifts.
I so agree. As someone who loves home decorating in a style where it really looks like a home, I have watched AI generated home design pop up and it has no soul- no human living there- and it is creepy and disturbing. I am horrified that this is carrying over in to all areas where humans create beauty in the image of their creator. And don’t even get me started about how it is being used to create things of evil and darkness. We are truly living in an age of new technological darkness.
As someone who loves to write poetry myself (and takes a very long time pouring my soul into every line), I am not particularly bothered to hear that this is happening. I actually was completely unaware of it until I read what you wrote here, as I'm not on any social media and generally have very little idea of what's going on. So maybe I'm missing something, like people boasting about their AI poetry? I bet that's incredibly annoying, if so. But these people know deep down, or even not very deep down, that it's not really theirs and means almost nothing. There's something much worse that has been among us for a while and troubles me greatly every time I see it...and it's along the same lines but has nothing to do with AI. There are a great many people walking around with fake faces and fake bodies--plastic surgery altering the way God made them, turning them into some kind of half-artificial sculpture. A marring of the image of God He had woven into their faces. That horrifies me. And what's worse is the knowledge that these people have every moment of their lives, that if someone, including themselves, finds them beautiful, it can't and never will be their true self. Forever after it will be the artificial construction that people see, till the day they die. What a despair, whether they're aware of it or not! And how much else about so many people is artificial? The "perfect" persona they create in our digital world...the tamed or peppy personality they portray with pills or alcohol...whatever each person thinks those around them want to see... There are a precious few people left in this world that present their true, vulnerable, honest self to others--even those closest to them. All this supposed focus on being one's "true self," is actually the artificially-constructed self they think they need to be, while all the while their true selves are shrinking further and further into the hollow centers of their spiritually-dead souls. That's the artificial intelligence I'm truly worried about. So don't pity the ones who truly live, and are honest in their suffering...Pity the ones who will never be known, who will never truly be seen, and therefore will never truly know love.
I suspect AI-generated "poetry" will burn out for a simple reason: It will lack soul, something that sensitive readers will immediately recognize and shun.
And speaking of poetry.....
I recently received a copy of HOMAGE TO SOREN KIERKEGAARD: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Dana Gioia & Mary Grace Mangano. Hugh Savage's winning 1st place poem, "The Wreck of the Kobenhavn", is stunning.
There are other good poems in the anthology but Savage's poem is the stand out.
AI could never approach its excellence or brilliance. "The Wreck...." is the evidence.
A-I generated - what is it? A artificial, I intelligence is what I heard it means so this item that is generated/created is not real and really not intelligent - it seems like a complete waste and as you say it is creepy too. it makes me think of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. I still remember watching it back in 1968. I did not completely understand it but it was definitely creepy
Same, Denise. As an artist and writer I’m troubled by AI, with its ability to write novels and produce art. The art might be beautiful, but there’s nothing behind it- no human mind, no suffering, no inspiration, no soul, and no imagination. It’s missing the most important part of the creation! The same with writing - and I worry that AI will become so popular that those of us who suffer to create things with our God-given talents, to partner with Him in such a way, will find ourselves crowded out in the future. I find myself thinking that there will be a great deal of human suffering coming, with those who can’t find a way to survive and feel worthwhile amidst a world of computer talent. Even if AI becomes that strong, those of us who actually create need to carve out a corner of the world to work with God in and support each other’s gifts.
I so agree. As someone who loves home decorating in a style where it really looks like a home, I have watched AI generated home design pop up and it has no soul- no human living there- and it is creepy and disturbing. I am horrified that this is carrying over in to all areas where humans create beauty in the image of their creator. And don’t even get me started about how it is being used to create things of evil and darkness. We are truly living in an age of new technological darkness.
As someone who loves to write poetry myself (and takes a very long time pouring my soul into every line), I am not particularly bothered to hear that this is happening. I actually was completely unaware of it until I read what you wrote here, as I'm not on any social media and generally have very little idea of what's going on. So maybe I'm missing something, like people boasting about their AI poetry? I bet that's incredibly annoying, if so. But these people know deep down, or even not very deep down, that it's not really theirs and means almost nothing. There's something much worse that has been among us for a while and troubles me greatly every time I see it...and it's along the same lines but has nothing to do with AI. There are a great many people walking around with fake faces and fake bodies--plastic surgery altering the way God made them, turning them into some kind of half-artificial sculpture. A marring of the image of God He had woven into their faces. That horrifies me. And what's worse is the knowledge that these people have every moment of their lives, that if someone, including themselves, finds them beautiful, it can't and never will be their true self. Forever after it will be the artificial construction that people see, till the day they die. What a despair, whether they're aware of it or not! And how much else about so many people is artificial? The "perfect" persona they create in our digital world...the tamed or peppy personality they portray with pills or alcohol...whatever each person thinks those around them want to see... There are a precious few people left in this world that present their true, vulnerable, honest self to others--even those closest to them. All this supposed focus on being one's "true self," is actually the artificially-constructed self they think they need to be, while all the while their true selves are shrinking further and further into the hollow centers of their spiritually-dead souls. That's the artificial intelligence I'm truly worried about. So don't pity the ones who truly live, and are honest in their suffering...Pity the ones who will never be known, who will never truly be seen, and therefore will never truly know love.
I suspect AI-generated "poetry" will burn out for a simple reason: It will lack soul, something that sensitive readers will immediately recognize and shun.
And speaking of poetry.....
I recently received a copy of HOMAGE TO SOREN KIERKEGAARD: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Dana Gioia & Mary Grace Mangano. Hugh Savage's winning 1st place poem, "The Wreck of the Kobenhavn", is stunning.
There are other good poems in the anthology but Savage's poem is the stand out.
AI could never approach its excellence or brilliance. "The Wreck...." is the evidence.
I went and read it! Amazing!
And talk about inimitable? Soren Kierkegaard??? There is no way someone so unique and profound could ever be duplicated!
I agree! You’ve hit the nail on the head! What’s this world coming to???!!!😣
A-I generated - what is it? A artificial, I intelligence is what I heard it means so this item that is generated/created is not real and really not intelligent - it seems like a complete waste and as you say it is creepy too. it makes me think of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. I still remember watching it back in 1968. I did not completely understand it but it was definitely creepy