Why publish books of it, then?
FaceDeer
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The whole point of poetry is that it’s an original expression of another human.
Who are you to decide what the "point" of poetry is?
Maybe the point of poetry is to make the reader feel something. If AI-generated poetry can do that just as well as human-generated poetry, then it's just as good when judged in that manner.
I do get the sense sometimes that the more extreme anti-AI screeds I've come across have the feel of narcissistic rage about them. The recognition of AI art threatens things that we've told ourselves are "special" about us.
Indeed, there are whole categories of art such as "found art" or the abstract stuff that involves throwing splats of paint at things that can't really convey the intent of the artist because the artist wasn't involved in specifying how it looked in the first place. The artist is more like the "first viewer" of those particular art pieces, they do or find a thing and then decide "that means something" after the fact.
It's entirely possible to do that with something AI generated. Algorithmic art goes way back. Lots of people find graphs of the Mandelbrot Set to be beautiful.
According to the AI art detector I ran that cave art through there's a 98% chance that it was AI generated, so we can't trust it's accuracy.
Hey now, America just had an election to decide whether vaccines work and they decided that they don't. Respect democracy!
Why does it matter if the Russian people know that? It's not like they can will more tanks into existence, or just imagine foreign trade and get tangible goods as a result.
Russia's actual real physical power has been broken by this war. Their demographic future is doomed. Their economy is in ruins. It doesn't matter if the Russian people are happy with that, they can paint big "Z" marks on their wretched hovels in patriotic ecstasy and it won't have any actual impact on anything.
It'd be ideal if Ukraine could have an outright victory and end the war fast, but failing that all that's necessary is for Ukraine to survive and it can wait out Russia's collapse.
Putin didn't start this war because he specifically hated Ukraine and wanted it destroyed, even at the cost of Russia's existence. He started it because he wanted to make Russia great again. In that regard the war is an utter failure.
And self-interested benefits aside, it's just the right thing to do. If a thing is capable of suffering then I want to minimize that.
Of the war maybe, but Russia's future economy and demography are very much going to have long term impacts from these losses.
You can get whatever result you want if you're able to define what "better" means.