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...

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Published in:	Modern Philology Vol. 121; no. 3; pp. 352 - 375
Main Author:	Middleton, Peter
Format:	Poetry Review
Published:	University of Chicago Press Feb2024
Subjects:	Found poetry Poetry (Literary form) Computation laboratories Artificial intelligence Theorists Postmodernism (Literary period) 20th century (Literary period) 21st century (Literary period)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost