It's less a "center" and more a whole "business complex," hah

The poems in Parallax ask us to consider how memorials made by AI bring us closer to and farther from those they are intended to honor."

When the AI is fed art, music, and literature from the women who affected his work and, in turn, those who influenced theirs, the memorials begin to take unexpected forms.

"An ancient stone monument is toppled by protesters on Earth. A photographer famous for his images of the monument suffers a stroke. His programmer daughter seeks to generate a memorial to him by feeding his photographs to the AI she maintains.

More info about Parallax is on the Aqueduct Press website: www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-...

and this might also end up being the official "record all the things PC" in the house, and that's something I'd like to have some flexibility with (more research needed), c.) it's educational (by which I mean, the kids will help, hah), and d.) also, it's fun.

Anyway, hello from Gen X, where is my ibuprofen, can you turn that music down a bit, it's kind of loud and I'm trying to do taxes here

Anyway, I should do a sort of review-ish type thing about the Retekess V115P, which I got in order to more easily record the weather forecasts. So far, I like it. On the V115, the comic sans greeting was, I don't know, charming? No comic sans on V115P, though. No, folks, the V115P is ALL BUSINESS

I can easily look up NOAA all hazard station frequencies. I don't have a list of numbers I can dial to get error messages, however, hah. Not without dialing a lot of working numbers randomly, which I'm absolutely not going to do. So, there's my next puzzle to solve.

I'm hoping in the "order of things" pedagogy, somewhere between "right hand technique" and "left hand technique" is "don't run your instrument into anything technique" 🤣

I'm curious what y'all think about this aspect of AI-generated content. How do we ensure that not only the complexity of art itself is maintained in a time of unchecked AI, but the works made in reaction to it are as deeply felt and considered as their subjects? 9/9

And if we don't find ourselves seeking out that visceral experience in poetry--or any art--what's the purpose? 8/n

We do need to understand the words and how they interact in poems--of course, we do. But if all that is privileged is a lot of clever words, poems become stale puzzles, ones we glance at briefly--if at all--in a moment of distracting ourselves. Ones we don't return to. 7/n

My favorite poets are the ones that leave me gasping for air between stanzas. Whose phrases I can feel as strongly as I hear them. Whose words are just an entryway into the experience of reading their poems.

And?

I don't know what AI-generated criticism will do to that level in poems. 6/n

The pace of the poem through line lengths, the breaks that lead the reader to expectations that are subverted in the next lines, sounds that feel a certain way in the ear--what of all that? 5/n

I also worry about arts criticism that will miss entire layers of what arts are meant to do. As a poet, yes, I put words with meanings together. But if that's all a critic looks at, then the critic misses out on the visceral experience I'm trying to evoke in my readers. 4/n

There's the worry that AI will make art homogeneous by training on what exists already, creating more using that as a pattern, and then pushing that back into the larger body of work. And that's better covered elsewhere. (Also, I wrote an entire poetry collection on that, which is out soon.) 3/n

I'm sure AI can do the job of placing a piece into historical context, which is important. And it can tell you all the possible meanings of individual words. But that risks missing so much about why we come to arts. 2/n