The Time I Thought Tao Lin Was A Robot
Bot or not? Lend me your thoughtson what verses are a bot's. I hereby invite you to visit bot or not, a website where a piece of poetry is displayed for your reading pleasure. You must then decide whether it was written/generated by a person or a machine. You can think of it as a poetry version of the Turing test, which gauges a machine's ability to do something as well as or indistinguishable from a human. In truth, I guessed most of them right, although with a few notable exceptions. For example, I was relatively sure that the following poem was written by a bot. But it was in fact written by the human Tao Lin. Knowing what little I do about Lin, though, I'm not sure he'd take that as an insult. Here's how the poem begins: from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. i ate things and listened to music someone else was feeling careful...