Screwing around with a mystery GPT

[Lizzie]

This came up on my social media. 

https://buttonpoetry.com/policies/?fbcli...H7Y2mIk9Mc

To your question of should there be a policy about AI use here, I would feel better if we did. You could argue it either way, I suppose -- ultimately good poetry reflects well on the site however it's produced. Yet, I feel like the purpose of the site is to teach humans to be better poets. I don't think I would feel duped or used if someone put AI poetry in a workshop because you can technically critique anything. But, I think it might be problematic if those poems were getting special recognition somehow or if someone was bragging while lying. 

As to this issue of putting another poet's work into the program to teach it to write like an individual person....I guess I don't understand fully all of the risks yet. It seems risky enough for individual authors that there are lawsuits and such. If you want to look at it through a dark lens (and I always do), you could say that presses are issuing these statements because they now distrust their authors and don't want them drinking at the beach when they're supposed to be writing. 

At the end of the day, I'll admit that I want an official AI policy here because I don't wish to think about it further. I wish to write and critique in peace while the technophiles figure it out.