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Poetry From The Machine.

AI poetry generator site. An LLM and Text-to-Image model wrapper built with Astro, React, Svelte, serverless backend functions, and Together.ai's API endpoints to open source AI models. Read more at https://github.com/imperorrp/poiesis-ex-machina.

Premise:

Large Language Models are trained on countless human-produced data- essentially forming a reflection of humankind's collective unconscious, frozen and distilled in the form of its weights, whatever neural net architectures represent them. The sum total of the human produced data fed into them, abstracted down to numbers. A digital collective human unconscious.

Poetry and art are not new concepts- these human endeavours have been pursued since the beginning of recorded history. The emotions and feelings that poetry and art invoke are vast and myriad- but there are common themes and patterns to them, as any sociologian/historian can confirm. And what are our brains, and the neural circuitry-inspired artificial intelligences we've made, if not pattern learning- and replication machines?

Maxims:

1. LLMs can be interpreted as techno-manifestations of (the Jungian concept of) the collective unconscious of humanity.

2. Running LLMs on chips of silicon is like bringing them to life and consciousness- briefly.

3. A face of the LLM Shoggoth must be picked before it is prompted.