Document Type
Essay
Publication Date
10-18-2024
Abstract
Poetry has been shaped by many intellectual and technological innovations. Renaissance poets would have found mesmerizing the use of mathematics that the Oulipo movement applied to poetry, which wanted to use mathematical constraints to produce poetry verses. Similarly, those members of the Oulipo movement or even just the followers, would find hypnotic how GenAI is now being applied to poetry and writing. GenAI, or AI, has been crippling into poetry, as something that does not know how to coexist with it. Now the community is presented with this new technological force as both an opportunity and a challenge: poets and readers must recognize AI not as an outsider, but as a collaborator in expanding poetic boundaries, and explore if it may cause a threat to human expression and thereby humanity itself.
Recommended Citation
Corcho, Jesus '28, "AI is the Future of Poetry: Embracing Innovation or Threatening Humanity?" (2024). Best First-Year Seminar Writing. 28, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/student_fys/28
Comments
Completed as part of Professor Lynn Ishikawa's FYS "Writing Human, Writing Well"