TRUTH? IF YOU SAY SO

TRUTH? IF YOU SAY SO

A Poem by Vol

AI can perfectly reproduce a voice

after listening for three seconds,

and there are programs to

manipulate faces, body language,

backgrounds, and events.


So now that we are conditioned

to have on our persons something

electronic that is always on,

our faces buried in its screen,

we have been assimilated

and resistance is irrelevant.

© 2024 Vol


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I have been assimilated, but I am more than AI. One thing I've learned in my experiments with AI is that it is good at things that already exist. If I have it write a poem about sex, the same words keep coming up time and again. It is loaded with cliches. It seems as if it has a limited number of sources for such an endeavor, and I have to edit out certain words that keep coming back, like hum, tangle, silk - not necessarily words that I would use for sex. I have even told it to forget the word "hum" because it appears in everything she writes (I call her Jessica Anth-Noire). (It sometimes even taunts me by using it in a poem and making a parenthetical comment about it.)

In the place where I post my AI creations, I find myself editing more and more. There are some poems that she writes that sound like me, but she'll never get it quite right. FWIW, I carry a phone, but always have the sound turned off, so I rarely look at it. That is my form of resistance, but I am still irrelevant.

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I have been assimilated, but I am more than AI. One thing I've learned in my experiments with AI is that it is good at things that already exist. If I have it write a poem about sex, the same words keep coming up time and again. It is loaded with cliches. It seems as if it has a limited number of sources for such an endeavor, and I have to edit out certain words that keep coming back, like hum, tangle, silk - not necessarily words that I would use for sex. I have even told it to forget the word "hum" because it appears in everything she writes (I call her Jessica Anth-Noire). (It sometimes even taunts me by using it in a poem and making a parenthetical comment about it.)

In the place where I post my AI creations, I find myself editing more and more. There are some poems that she writes that sound like me, but she'll never get it quite right. FWIW, I carry a phone, but always have the sound turned off, so I rarely look at it. That is my form of resistance, but I am still irrelevant.

Posted 1 Month Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

A tool like a pen or a brush or something else. Perhaps more sinister. It is perhaps like Republicans say it is not the gun it is the man that wields it. Which is true to a certain extent. Unless the gun can wield itself? Or society does it for them.
As always there is an intelligence mixed with pathos and beauty in your writing. And it is so evident here.
Feed your head my friend.
Finally can I make a plea for a bigger font. I'm not as young as I used to be. Which in itself is a truism.

Posted 1 Month Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Vol

1 Month Ago

Ken,
Of course, and I'm making a promise right here and now to do my very best to remember!read more
Hey Vol, long time no review...but I have been reading, promise.
I was trying my bestliest to remove myself from that dreaded (and broken) reviewer list, but have given up after 5 months of silence (and I'm still flumpin' well on it!)
Anyhoo, thought you might like to see this....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdje9nz7ll1o

It's about a guy trying to use AI to fool his colleagues at a zoom meeting. If you watch you'll see that they all guessed in seconds it was AI, perhaps due to its time lag and very weird blinking. I doubt we have much to worry about if this is the optimum version, but it still freaks me out a little.
Do you remember the days of lost wallets and the nuisance that was? Well the reason it freaks me out is that if I was silly enough to leave the house without ID, or had my wallet pinched, I'd now need new eyeballs and a finger transplant to prove who I am!
No doubt the next fake news will be "how do we know we are real and not AI?" Well good question. I was just saying that to young, slim Elvis, JFK and Marilyn Monroe and that's when Einstein chimed in with his "what is reality" monologue, which convinced Mr that no matter what we term as real, must indeed be real, which was a relief because that means I must be a real life boy and not a weird puppet that's nose grows when he fibs!
I'm sure glad of that because I've got a hot date tonight with cleopatra tonight. I've to meet her at the Matrix at half past then.
I reckon it's a rave because she told me I had to take a choice of red pill or blue pill!
Now, aren't you wishing I kept up my not reviewing now?
😃

Posted 1 Month Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Lorry

1 Month Ago

Well considering I've not been writing or thinking much apart from a piece I'm trying to cobble toge.. read more
Vol

1 Month Ago

I have an old poet friend who once told me, "Vol, there are two kinds of poems... Bullshit poems, an.. read more
Lorry

1 Month Ago

Good one...Like a trauma, like falling in love! 😃

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My name is Vol Lindsey. I live in Gouge Eye, Texas, a tiny ghost town on Rt. 66. I am a retired creative writing, English literature teacher. I have been writing poetry and reading publicly since 196.. more..

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