Writing slowly with machines: AI-generated poetry and the paradox of accelerated creation
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artificial poetry, generative AI, sexuality(ies), identity(ies), slow readingAbstract
This article offers a critical reflection on poetry generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI), interrogating the paradox between the machinic acceleration of textual production and the slowness required for reading and aesthetic experience. Rejecting the validation of the machine as an autonomous poetic subject, it argues instead for its appropriation as an experimental and critical material. The analysis focuses on texts produced by language models from both human prompts and prompts proposed by the chatbot itself, with particular attention to themes of sexualities and identities. It examines how AI reveals tendencies towards simplification and aesthetic homogenisation, while also considering how the final images returned by the chatbot open up possibilities for critical analysis. Poetry generated by the machine thus emerges as a site of tension between limits and potentialities, demanding an active role from the reader/researcher: through slow and attentive reading, these texts may be reinscribed as spaces of symbolic resistance and as horizons of ethical and aesthetic reflection.
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