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AI Poetry vs. My Own
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I was in the middle of brainstorming my next cowboy romance, which features a cowboy who writes poetry, when I got an e-mail from a fellow author.
Derek Murphy is an authorpreneur with lots of good ideas and who’s always generously sharing them for free. For example, he has a 3D cover creator and a plot prompt generator.
In his last email, he shared a link to a poem-generator for Valentine’s Day. So I thought I’d try writing a poem, “My Notebook,” from the point of view of my cowboy who writes poetry.
In all fairness, I already knew that the AI output would not be as detailed or customized. For one, the generator is geared toward love poems, so the recipients have to either be objects of love (lover / girl or boyfriend) or family.
And it doesn’t get specific enough. It’s common knowledge that AI content relies greatly on good prompts, and about all I could say was that I was writing a poem to “My Notebook,” the form was “ode,” and the tone “funny.”
As you will see and might agree with me, the “funny” part is sorely lacking. I got funnier results when I generated a poem for my husband in a snarky tone.
But, and the big but, is, after only inputting two words, “My Notebook,” I got a poem in a matter of seconds. It…
