Models Show Surprising Enthusiasm in Selecting Poems
emollick · x · 2026-07-19
Ethan Mollick discussed how models react when selecting poetry, noting they seem "unusually enthusiastic" about certain poems and mentioning that "every model loves *Autopsychography*." Accompanying images list several poems and texts to analyze why models favor them: for instance, *Eating Poetry* features strong imagery and the playful concept of "devouring words"; Szymborska's poetry contains extensive self-modification and borrowed language structures, perfectly suiting a model's knack for "borrowing words to build phrases." The post also touches on poems by the early text generator Racter, showing that "machine-generated poetry" is inherently great for these slightly absurd evaluations and memes.
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