I think the main problem is the anxiety to publish as quick as all of the other competitive writers are and then worrying that you won’t have enough money to keep producing books if they’re not well loved enough to make a proper investment return

Thank you 🙏🏻

This video made lightbulbs turn on for me. Thank you!

I think Ai can be a great tool. Not to write for you but more as a critic partner to help point out flaws in your already thoughtfully written essay. Now you take that critic with a grain of salt. Focus on what you think is worth it and ignore what you don’t.

Thank you! I have decided to read Lord Byron’s works, but it felt off even though I was reading it in my head. I was too drum beat (less from nursery rhymes and more from linguistic focus on stress in metre) and I was pausing at line breaks, which definitely interrupted the flow of thought

Te amo❤

2:22 it wouldn’t surprise me if e.e. cummings actually did that at one point

Excellent analysis of the severe limitations of generative AI. It's a tool, and like all tools, it has its narrow, proper use, and then a myriad of improper uses. I use AI on an almost daily basis, and it has become an almost indispensable part of my workflow process, but I would never use it for rhetoric, persuasion, analysis, etc. It’s a hammer, and there are times that a hammer is just what you need. The problem occurs when we thing that every problem is a nail.

This was wonderfully fun. :) Absolutely loved it; I had started this video without watching it at all, only listening. Hearing your voice change to fifties noir was perfect. ^_^ Oh it just tickled me so! And my goodness was it a good way to present how one presents themselves matters for purposes of presentation! XD Good lard, but this was fun! <3

How cool. I didn't know you did that. I'm Brazilian and I write a tradional style of popular poetry commonly known as "literatura de cordel", originating from my home region, the Northeast. I'll try to write one in English and submit it to you. It has a very strict set of rules but it'll be fun trying to stick to them in a different language.

What a wonderful and amazing video! Thoughtful and rational. Instant subscription!

So that's what I was lacking 😮 Thank you sir-for opening my eyes 😅

Upsc guys these channel to get extra no in essay.

i think the red wheelbarrow is about how the 2nd line of the stanza is the red wheelbarrow, as the first line almost completely depends upon it

time for me to practice

All hail the Great Algo! (Lovecraftian chanting rises.) In my experience, it is pain that let's us know we are still alive. I enjoyed all three of these, & your comments on them, though I would enjoy Leviathan being fleshed out more. Also, perhaps the sun sees the spots differently, sending them forth, plumes of her radiant beauty, while being unaware of the potential havoc they are wreaking on our electronics, bringing our current golden digital age to its knees. But that would be a different poem. Thanks again.

Why do about ten percent of modern/contemporary poems have no punctuation, especially no punctuation at the end of lines? Omitting the punctuation seems to serve no purpose and just causes confusion, yet I see it. I prefer the 90% that do have punctuation. The same thing about omitting capital letters befuddles me. (I'm in a poetry writing group, and I am the only one who uses standard punctuation and capitalization, and people think it's funny that I do that, yet when I read poems, 90 percent do it like me.)

Another great video. Learning quite a bit here, thank you.

Would you mind haiku?

AI will continue to improve, that doesn't give humans an excuse to stop improving. We should learn to teach, both us and the machines we intend to grow. We can only improve this way.

In the programming corner of the world we're not in a much better boat. I feel like I'm from a different planet when people tell me that AI can just create fully functional software from scratch with nothing but prompts.

For sure with ambiguity in The Young Sun. Writers still have "to give away just enough" to help the reader to scaffold his/her understanding of the piece and to help the reader make the intended unique connections (e.g., verifying, as you said, the sun's self consciousness and clarifying the metaphor of the sun representing something else [a woman] in The Young Sun). This is also why I agree with your views concerning ambiguity concerning Laviathan; however, I do believe that its meaning can be extended to the decay of Hobbes social contract idea in modern life.

I wanted to submit poetry, but the legal language on your website scared me off.

Flower Children A daisy in our hair wild and fresh from the meadow we were full of it then love and heart for all humanity but especially for our enemy we wrapping love notes around the stems we stuffed them within the muzzles that took four down that took four down we are old now no hair left to hold the daisy no daisy left in the parched meadow to hold our heart we place grudge flowers now in the holes of our dead fellows with promises of revenge and justice for all the few left over we save for a muzzle still from time to time stuffed hard with hopes the barrel blows takes off their faces should they attempt to bring another down grudge flowers grow where once the pretty daisy grew happy, merry fist in the air oh my how the children have grown. Dan E. Nicholas, 12.15.24

Maybe I’ll send you some of my poetry

These videos are so helpful!! I would also love to see you review or make suggestions for some sort of poetry collection 🤗

You missed the point of “The Young Sun”. It’s about a woman, not the actual sun.

It doesn't even seem to be reliably identity when phrases are used as subjects or objects.

As soon as venture capital stops playing chicken with billions of dollars, this trash will go away (and probably take the web down with it). The exponential growth of this technology ended almost a year ago, and the peak has been thoroughly disappointing (though not surprising if youve been watching it badly plagiarize fanfiction since gpt1).

Thank you for your channel. I love it! I wish I could find someone who could evaluate my writing and give me an honest opinion about my writing ability. I also wish I could find an online course that can help me improve my writing. If you know of one, please let me know. I'll be very grateful.

Bravo and thank you!

It's not just the end of semester. It's the end, really.

Good for you guys. You’ve developed coping mechanisms. Just keep your heads in the sand everything will be OK. Everything will be OK. Everything will be OK. Everything will be OK….

Your internal critic is showing 💀

6:20 such a beautiful sentence and deep in technical aspects

The takeaway that only you can express you is evergreen, and will remain true whether or not you must compete against better writers--human or machine. But it's beside the point of AI coming for writing. Said another way, it will always be true if you've got something to say, only you can say it for yourself. This discussion seems to lack the context that it is a criticism based on a selection bias of obviously bad AI writing. So, yes, rail against clumsy AI writing, but it's really just an indictment against clumsy writing. Savvy people yet to come will learn to wield AI as any other tool and it will gradually return to be less about how you produced what you said than what you had to say. That's really your argument as I understand it anyway. And with all this criticism I wonder if opportunities aren't missed. For instance, I find Google's Notebook LM a revelation for being an alpha reader (not the only one). It can read 60k words and provide meaningful insights within minutes. Is it sometimes dumb? Sure. Miss the point? Absolutely. But does it sometimes amaze me with a cogent observation? Frequently. I don't use AI to write because I want to own the words and ideas, but it's certainly useful for transactional writing that I don't want to put brain power into. I treasure it for its default, "how would a soulless corpo say this" functionality because sometimes I want a sterile tone, or sometimes I don't want to use my idiolect. Sometimes I just want to blend in.

This is very helpful for short story I’ve been trying to write forever. It’s about an alien that I call Skydeer who’s the last of their species and has amnesia. They’re floating in a blue box that has nothing in it except clouds. Basically what this means is that they don’t remember most nouns so they have to talk in these weird sentences like “they have these flat Things with long Things coming out of them that bend and twist like a wrist only there’s many more places they bend.”They’re trying to describe human hands, which they’ve never seen in their life. I keep kicking myself over trying to make this make the kind of code this creature speaks in be consistent and make sense but now I realize I don’t necessarily need too. Skydeer is an extremely confused creature who gets migraines when they try too hard to properly articulate something, of course their internal monologue is inconsistent! As long as I can make it clear through signifiers and context what they’re trying to communicate I think the audience will be able to follow. Just gotta get some proofreaders when push comes to shove.

AI will never perfect temporality, because it does not exist in "our time" and our bodies. How could an AI know the messiness of my relations with a friend? Even if I told it, my language would pale in comparison to the mass of endorphins and hormones running through me, the overwhelming feeling, that my language barely captures. But then - this language is all the AI will ever know.

I probably could write better, but you overestimate my ability lol

CMOS now prescribes email over e-mail as of the 17th edition(2017), but we're still stuck with e-book and e-commerce. i only like hyphens when it lets me disambiguate while still using the words i want to use.

LLMs are great for writing quick, one-off Unix scripts for transforming data. Around 90% of the time the command is right, 9% there is an error that can be easily fixed, and 1% of the time there’s an error that only a Unix expert could identify and, were it not discovered, would have turned into a huge time waste. To me, it’s a tool to help experts become a little more efficient and productive. It can help with learning curves and has broadened the Unix tools I can use. To me, Copilot and Claude and ChatGPT are great tools for some programming tasks, but, man, even with this amazing tool it gets so overhyped.

AI doesn't write anything. It's an information gathering algorithm. Every result it returns for prompts to write a story or generate art was scraped from the internet and taken from an already existing source and recompiled based on users' parameters. For many things it's incredible technology. Science, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, etc. All these fields require incredible amounts of data to be compiled and analyzed. That's where machine learning shines and will create a revolution. When it's used for art and literature, it's nothing more than blatant and brazen plagiarism.

I’m still not full on optimistic about the situation. It’s a technology so new we don’t know where exactly it is bringing us yet. For now it’s not good enough to replace human writing, yes, but maybe it will become better in the future. Some publishers have started to feed authors’ works to train AI models. I hope those models will never exceed humans, but as for now, it’s still hard to say. I’m seeing people happily settle for the soulless writing/art from AI because it looks good enough to them. AI books are invading the self publish spaces, making it difficult for both the writers who try to stand out and the readers who struggle to filter out all these AI nonsenses. The traditional publishers, as stated before, are jumping on the trend and feeding books to these models. It’s pathetic when all of this seems like an effort to replace human as much as possible in the creative spaces. I’m not threatened by the AI as it is now. I feel threatened because of the intention behind its creation and development. As long as the tech bros have the intention to make AI good enough to replace everyone, I would be sitting on the edge for the rest of my life.

I am not losing my voice to AI at all. Instead, it´s helping me to give voice to the voiceless. Thanks for your video!

I have a dear friend. Although I like him, I don't like his writing. It's "sanitized" with little personality. Recently, I have "written" a couple of blog posts where I gave my notes to an AI, and it wrote an article for me... the articles were "decent," given that my notes were 3 times the length of the article. Anyway I showed the articles to my friend and he told me "wow these are very good!"... That's when I knew... I'll never let AI write another one of my posts.

Keep in mind: Early chess programs couldn't beat casual players. Now Grandmasters can't beat them.

You were on point regarding the actual use of AI. AI should be used to flush out spelling mistakes, grammar errors, punctuation errors, or lack of punctuation. AI would make an excellent writing assistant. People who see that as "cheating" is both thinking too small about AI and propping AI up on a pedestal.

Thank you for your insights. Yes keep at it… But what if you have something to say and for 25 years you have tried a variety of forms and mediums to communicate. But still people do not understand you and you simply become another voice shouting in the vast pit of people who also wish to be seen and heard. What then? For me using AI to structure my thoughts in to something the people can access and understand is a helpful tool to experiment with. My raw written work from 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2022 still exists. Would I use AI in my live performance art practice, most likely no not at all, because that is a direct and unfiltered exchange between the audience and I. Writing is not, language is already a filter that fails my voice, so yes I am drawn to AI simply for it to filter my words in a way that gives people access to my thoughts.

In public school I hated poetry, thought it was only useful for lyrics in music. Now I’m an English minor who’s dipping his toes into writing fiction. I submitted three poems to my school’s literary magazine and the one that I thought was my worst got in… funny how life works

AI is pretty neat!