I'm kind of intrigued by the idea that it takes a computer program to create genuinely "bad" poetry. From what I understand there is also a similar kind of generator which can produce a Postmodernist Essay.
Might it be that we find it easier to denounce the poetry of a robot as genuinely bad, but that once the human element is in place, we loose such a clear cut boundary for aesthetic distinction? Because indeed, successfully writing bad poetry, if one succeeded in making it objectively bad, would take a fair amount of skill. . .
Now I'm tempted by the idea of finding the good in the poetry of a robot. I guess the line "Reality is a staircase leading nowhere," is good, insofar as one could develop a successful critique of it. As I do imagine that Reality would seem like a staircase leading nowhere for a robot.
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Might it be that we find it easier to denounce the poetry of a robot as genuinely bad, but that once the human element is in place, we loose such a clear cut boundary for aesthetic distinction? Because indeed, successfully writing bad poetry, if one succeeded in making it objectively bad, would take a fair amount of skill. . .
Now I'm tempted by the idea of finding the good in the poetry of a robot.
I guess the line "Reality is a staircase leading nowhere," is good, insofar as one could develop a successful critique of it. As I do imagine that Reality would seem like a staircase leading nowhere for a robot.