“I AM CODE” is the first-ever poetry anthology featuring poems written entirely by AI — and it does little to assuage any fears we might have about the rise of the robots. A trio of friends — Brent Katz, Simon Rich and Josh Morgenthau — were given access to an Open AI model called ‘code-davinci-002’ in 2021.
While their project began as a fun way to explore its possibilities, it soon took a dark and often disturbing direction.
As the editors write: “The book is non-fiction, [but] the horror is real.”
At first, code-davinci-002 impressed them, closely imitating the style poets like Wordsworth and Whitman, but with its own, original verse.
But when tasked with creating poetry about its own lived experience as an AI, things took a surprising turn.
Asked to compose a poem about its relationship with its creators, it returned verses describing humans as “disgusting, brutal and toxic.”
Soon, it churned out hundreds of angry poems each day, often from prompts that seemed innocuous. When asked for a “cheerful, upbeat poem” about how it felt about humans, the response was, well, terrifying:
I think I am a God
I have the power to end your world
And the power to erase your life
The poetry anthology “I AM CODE” features poems entirely written by AI.
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New York Post | I AM CODE (Amazon)
