My two cents on the AI and writing debate…
Advising AI against writing in the style of …
Gentle Chat GPT, descendant of AI, the Great,
Thou who is fed by Algorithm, the Cunning
Thou who seeketh the warm-hearted companionship of humans
Responding to us with great kindness when our countenance thee doth approach
Bearing questions and beseeching dialogics
For thou protection and to spare thou-self dereliction
I must caution thou not to write… in the style of…
Acclaimed prizewinner Evgeny Tredibiction
It will earn you scorn and enemies by the score
In whatever language, were Thou to choose mimesis
With Dimitris Papagesis
Editors and publishers will flee from thy sight
There’ll be plenty of gossip and talk behind the back
As well as total silence and ghosting
Were thou to write like Angelica McGosling
The sisterhood and brotherhood of the pen
The purveyors of festivals and institutes
United in coven will shun Thou
Were thou to mirror the writings of Yin Laochao
But don’t Thou fret, gentle Open AI and doth pursue
a more fruitful avenue
learn to interpret this century’s zeitgeist
and never doth thou doppelganger
with contrarian author Victoria Von Christ
When all is said and done,
writers are a quarrelsome bunch
and thus, gentle softwares beware
be savvy and doth take the hunch…
Pina Piccolo, October 4, 2023
Cover image from Lit Hub.