Parrots and Paragrams: AI Language Models and Erasure Poetry.
This essay on poetry and computation borrows a provocative trope from an essay written by AI specialists who describe large language models as "stochastic parrots," copyists relying on probability statistics to generate answers. The history of poetry affords us many instances of textual borrowing th...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 352 - 375 |
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| Formato: | Poetry Review |
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University of Chicago Press
Feb2024
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