Screwing around with a mystery GPT

[Tiger the Lion]

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I feel sick to my stomach thinking about all of this 

Rupi Kaur should be worried, Lizzie, but I think you’ll be fine 

I had no idea who she was, so looked her up. Seems like she had a lot of success early on and now is facing some pressure from her publisher to stay with a simpler style because that's what they find marketable. Not sure which is sadder, that she feels like she needs to grow as a poet and can't, or that so many people really think that her work is good poetry. It's a shame really, because she could use her platform to educate others about how to grow as an artist -- she could do a lot for the world of poetry that way, and inspire others to aspire. 

Is this what people mean when they refer to "Instagram Poetry?" Her work? 99.9% of the time I don't regret ignoring social media, but every once in a while...

I mustn't think about it too much, or I will end up in "Bitter Failure" territory...

I suppose it's strange to think about giving up writing because of ChatGPT. Nobody gives up on chess because they'll never beat Stockfish or AlphaZero.

My humble opinion is, AI, by definition can only be influenced, never actually inspired. It is plagiaristic by nature. Matter of fact we should probably look into incorporating it into our plagiarism policy. Not that anyone here so far has been anything less than transparent, but the subject seems to be coming up more and more frequently. It's an important subject so I would never suggest we pretend it doesn't exist. I think the old anagram poems were a precursor to this and we maybe never stopped to think about their validity because they were fun and seemingly harmless. Do we need a separate forum for this?