“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts

[baishen@mastodon.online]

@drahardja Nice. Reminds me of this Kurt Vonnegut quote.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kurt-vonnegut-envelope-quote/

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@baishen @drahardja

TWO wonderfulnesses todayy. This poem and the Vonnegut thing.

oh goodness, I knew the Vonnegut quote was true, but the Case Western lecture accounting of the story by him is worth the 20m of your day.

Humans are here to fart around.

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@baishen @drahardja I'm just learning that I can't look at snopes anymore because they don't like my adblocker.

[guenther@chaos.social]

@drahardja

Claude, make it rhyme

/s

[electrafish@social.electrafish.tech]

@drahardja So lovely

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@drahardja This is wonderful -- thank you so much for sharing it.

[baishen@mastodon.online]

@starluna Odd. It worked fine with my ad blockers.

[lappenjammerdiezweite@social.vivaldi.net]

@drahardja

[cotopaxi@mstdn.social]

@drahardja
This. Thank you! 🫶

[erikcats@dice.camp]

@drahardja glad to have read this. Made my day

[frankaulux@polyglot.city]

@drahardja

Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing !

[mbrandtner@gruene.social]

@drahardja Plot Twist: The poem was generated by AI

[acm_redfox@jawns.club]

@drahardja wonderful! ️

[paul@notnull.space]

@drahardja beautiful

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@MBrandtner @drahardja

I know that was sarcasm, but BOOOOO

[melindaatl@theatl.social]

@drahardja i love this, thank you for sharing it ️

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@fbinin I should consider myself lucky that I haven’t seen these ads!

[evelinesulman@akademienl.social]

@drahardja beautiful!

[tasket@infosec.exchange]

@drahardja An AI has nothing to lose (or win) except for its maker's bottom line; no experience. Profit alone cannot drive true intelligence that is respectful of life.

Even if those products had those things, they would still not be discrete beings like the AIs in most science fiction. Even a "digital ghost" flitting through systems is described through the language of embodiment.

[annasdtc@sciences.social]

@drahardja I now feel dumb for having read it out loud to my partner with my silly "English is my third language" accent. But, true to the essence of the poem, my partner replied that they like listening to me. ️

And, indeed, some folks are using AI to spare themselves the need to actually live. What a well written poem!