Article is in Dutch, but maybe understandable via Google Translate.
TL;DR: AI poetry is used in 3 different ways.
1. To study progress in creative computing;
2. To explore new literary forms and to see how people interpret those;
3. To (deceptively) market AI with appeals to its 'humanity.'
Emiel van Miltenburg
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Emiel van Miltenburg
Abstract
Automatically generated poetry has a long history, dating back at least to John Peter’s (1677) algorithm that was able to produce almost 600,000 Latin lines of poetry. Attention to this topic...