The simplicity of the AI poems, free from messy metaphors or complex allusions common in human poetry, seemed to appeal to ...

Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that some things really were better quality in the past ...

A new study seems to suggest AI can compose better poetry than humans, but the truth is somewhat more complicated.

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It has been found that AI poems scored higher than their human-written counterparts in attributes such as ‘creativity’, ...

While some have been a total hit, a few famous faces have shared their horror stories including on-stage blunders. Some ...

non-expert readers were unable to distinguish poetry written by AI from that written by canoni­cal poets like Geoffrey ...

New research found that readers preferred AI-generated poems over poems written by humans. The study also found that ...

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 ...

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...

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 ...

A sophisticated assortment of artful gift ideas for discerning, well-read personalities. Bookish presents. What does that ...