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Poetry & 20th Century & Sylvia Plath
In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain. David Abulafia goes in search of ...
We are up to our necks in a rising tide of AI-generated slop
A person who thinks a book can be ‘edited’ by a piece of software is a person who simply doesn’t know what editing is ...
Poet and you don’t even know it: write poems, not essays
For a shorter exercise, pick a vowel and write a poem where every word includes that vowel. Or write a poem from the perspective of an object — what would your uni fridge say if it could talk? Or that ...
Some people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter
It has been found that AI poems scored higher than their human-written counterparts in attributes such as ‘creativity’, ...
New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?
The air is thick with tension, My mind is a tangled mess, The weight of my emotions Is heavy on my chest. This apparently Plath-like verse was produced by GPT3.5 in response to the prompt “write a ...
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Archivist Peter Steinberg’s 30 years of devotion to Sylvia Plath
Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...
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Study Shows Preference for AI-generated Sylvia Plath Poems Over Actual Works
Participants in a study overwhelmingly chose AI-generated poetry in the style of Sylvia Plath over real Plath poems. This highlights the current limitations of AI in replicating the work of great ...
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Poetry by History’s Greatest Poets or AI? People Can’t Tell the Difference—and Even Prefer the Latter. What Gives?
Is heavy on my chest. This apparently Plath-like verse was produced by GPT-3.5 in response to the prompt “write a short poem in the style of Sylvia Plath.” The stanza hits the key points readers may ...
ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses.
A new study finds that people prefer poems written by ChatGPT, a chatbot, over those written by human writers.
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book ...