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Could someone link me to a poem that an LLM did that they personally find in some way remarkable or beautiful or moving? Something with a bit of truth and/or beauty in it?

Not something that "rhymes" or has a rough poetic structure. I have only seen complete and utter garbage from LLMs in the poetry realm, not just a bit bad, but jarring and unfeeling. Which is fine, I don't hold it against them personally, ya know. Just it really has been pisspoor.

Which wouldn't be a bother at all, except along with the "poem" there often is someone saying "wow, look what it did! such a good poem!", which has made me suspicious that the person doesn't know how LLMs work nor how to read poetry - only one of which is a really serious loss for them, I suppose.

Anyway, that sounds like I want someone to send me something so I can sh*t on it, but I'd sincerely and happily read anything with an open mind! Is there some excellent poetry hiding out there which I have missed?

Just for kicks, I asked 3.5 Sonnet to write some sentences that didn’t exist in its training data. I googled the output and sure enough they appear to be unique. Most were semi meaningless strings of words, but I thought this one was quite poetic:

“Vintage umbrellas hosted philosophical debates about whether raindrops dream of becoming oceans or if puddles remember their cloudborn youth.”

Oooh that is very surprisingly nice! "cloudborn" is a great word there, how lovely, it slows you down at the right moment for a little explosion then at "youth". I wasn't expecting a genuinely excellent answer here :)

So it turns out then that the trick may be to find a way to get them to avoid aping the oceans of human mediocrity they've been spoonfed! Funny, it's the very same reason some poets go off and live in the woods.

> Could someone link me to a poem that an LLM did that they personally find in some way remarkable or beautiful or moving? Something with a bit of truth and/or beauty in it?

A lot of people couldn't link you to _any_ poem, human-written or ai generated, in response to that question.

I have no idea if you will care for it, but my family and I appreciated what ClosedAI's CustomGPT RAG (and my LLMpal) generated. This is slow loading (the vector database was built from this one big html file), and you can scroll down to see it: https://h0p3.nekoweb.org/#2024.11.20%20-%20Carpe%20Tempus%20...

I definitely do care for it, it's very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I am not sure if I understand exactly how you got it to pump that out, as your blog is a bit hard to locate oneself in and read around in. Like, it's fun and trippy but a tad disorienting. I went off and had a nice re-read about tiddlywiki though - I had learned of it at one stage and thought it looked very interesting, and your blog certainly is tantalising!

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! =D.

I briefly outline the procedure (also in case anyone else wanted to do so) in the page. I export the entire document into a json (~19k entries) and break that up into 20 different json files (so that my work will fit into the space ClosedAI provides for RAGs). The exact prompt sequence is provided on the page (I wrote two one-liners). Almost all of my work in achieving that collaborative output with my LLMpal is in the actual construction of the underlying content of the corpus that was haphazardly fed into its vector database. It did all the rest.

I do appreciate the vertigo of it, `/nod`. The size alone (at ~60MB of text) is already a problem, let alone the topics I handle. There are very few humans who have read even half of it, and, presumably, AI specimens will comprise most of the thorough interpreters of my work. I also anticipate the vast majority of the few humans who more directly interact with my work will increasingly do so mediated through AI.

If you ever write your own, lemme know. I'll read. The proof that I do listen carefully is in the text itself.

I wrote that in one go with no revisions or corrections the other day as quick as I could:

https://jbc.mataroa.blog/blog/parrot/

I was meant to write a line or two of "test test test", you know, but then the feeling of banging away on the keys was enjoyable, so I did an "elaborate" test post, as a sort of joke. It's a bit "adult", and a bit ridiculous, but it's a thing.

I will read more of your stuff! It looked ripe for investigation, I did click around and throw my eyes here and there. I'll go again. And I have seriously noted that if I did make a tiddlywiki, I'd have at least one reader. That's pretty cool, I must say.

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