Conflicted Copy
Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere, published by Faber & Faber, Limited in 2024, is a 56-page exploration of poetry through the lens of artificial intelligence. In this work, Riviere adeptly utilizes found content and the capabilities of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) to craft poems that reflect the complexities of human emotions amid the rise of technology. The language employed is both innovative and disconcerting, capturing the anxieties surrounding AI while maintaining a distinctly human voice.
Readers will encounter a unique blend of poetry and machine-generated language that challenges traditional notions of authorship and creativity. Riviere’s approach reveals the uncertainties, fears, and desires inherent in a world increasingly influenced by technology. The poems navigate the intersection of computers and human experience, offering insights into how machines interpret and reflect our realities. This edition invites readers to engage with the evolving relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence through a poetic framework.
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Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting ‘found’ content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2), an open source neural network , is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that speaks of the uncertainties, fears and desires of a world that is desperately, poignantly and recognisably human.
‘Riviere’s machine language, often delightfully clunky, also has its magical aspects, unplugging and rebooting our perceptual apparatus as we look over the shoulder of machines clumsily figuring us out. . . In turning poetry towards machine language, Riviere quietly kicks off a poetic revolution for our time.’ Guardian
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