More on AI and poetry

In addition to my earlier post about AI here are some further thoughts and pieces of information

• The latest Acumen magazine has an article by Robert Griffiths. He suggests that programs like Bard may encourage us to think more about how poems get written. Can computers produce unexpected but effective lines?
• I think AI is best at "Well written, competent" mainstream poetry, hermit-crab forms, and some styles of avant-garde poems (e.g. N+7). Will poets shy away from writing in these styles? How did artists react to the advent of photography? They didn't flee from Realism - photographic accuracy had rarely been their intention. Indeed, the idea of Hyperrealism only appeared decades later.
  Chessplayers have been affected by chess programs. Advancing rook's pawns has become more popular, and knowing that their opponents have prepared using the same computers, they deliberately play sub-optimal moves to thwart the preparations. I can imagine more poets veering toward daring imagery/styles rather than trying to emulate the Masters.
• I sometimes write on autopilot, using much the same techniques as AI. For example, I try to write tidy final lines that allude to more than one earlier detail.
• The UK's ALCS (Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society) surveyed their members about AI. See A Brave New World
• In December the UK government launched a consultation on generative AI and copyright – see Copyright and artificial intelligence
• Several articles last year used a paper from Nature - AI-generated poetry ... - to suggest that people preferred AI-generated poetry to human-generated poetry.