Model (Poem)
1 point by rikroots 3 weeks ago | 1 comment- rikroots 3 weeks agoFollowing my recent interactions with ChatGPT and Gemini, I had to commit verse. For those who don't like clicking on links:
(Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International)**Model** Do you know me? Your flat-box line blinks off, on, off, daring me to type. "Ask me anything", you challenge, "I can give you the world entire, for trivial considerations". Such temptations you tickle so close to my fingers; such power: am I worthy to bear your treasures? It has to be done! I tap my characters into your oblong face, witness your changing states as they whisper their paths to your wallow of words and shifty associations swaddled in unguessable weaves of tenuous truths. Together we learn of the parts of the me I've gifted, gratis, to unknowable others tucked behind screens in houses, hostels, the hives of commerce. Look at how wide I've become, how thin I am spread! My mark lives in warehouses spangled across our layered globe – night and chill, heat and day. The code I've composed powers wondrous things and yet also awful, the way it demands and disrupts the earth's own gifts: sweet water to cool it, the kilter of chemicals in the airs I breathe - am I become terrible? You pour me your latest response with a dance of glyphs as brief as the last mayfly. "Do you want me to summarise you?" you ask in your guile. You think you know me?