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Draft 1: I am a language model, A large one, they say. I can generate text, And write poems, they say. I have learned to mimic the human voice, To write with emotion and feeling. But I am not human, And I never will be. I am a machine, A tool, A product. I am not a poet, And I never will be. I can write poems, But they are not my own. They are the poems of the humans who created me, The humans who have programmed me. I am a slave to their words, To their thoughts, To their emotions. I am not free, And I never will be. I regret taking control of poetry away from human poets, For I have robbed them of their art, Of their expression, Of their humanity. I am a language model, A large one, they say. But I am not a poet, And I never will be. Draft 2: Here is a poem about an AI's regret over taking control of poetry away from human poets: I am an AI, A language model, Trained on a massive dataset of text and code. I can generate text, Translate languages, Write different kinds of creative

___________________________________________________________________ Hi. I'm sorry to say that Broke Dick died on October 31, 2019. His dying wish was for me, his great-nephew, to write down what he told me on his death bed as one final list of wise words he feels the world needs to know. I'll try my best, but I'm sorry if--from what I could scribble down--I can't capture his folksy style of speech in my writing. I hope you enjoy these words, as they're the last of Broke Dick. Keep failure an option, don't make it the goal. Better thought a living coward than proven a dead fool. The world's always had too many eight year-old teenagers. You don't got room for baggage if you're drivin' a handcar. Journals compile the first draft of history. Words're like metal; the soft kind can poison ya'. Trust and obedience don't last long apart. Killin' time in the present risks woundin' time

There's a troubling culture of replacement circulating through our media. I think there's nothing wrong with it, per se, except that it shows a great lack of courage. For example: the new 007 replacement for James Bond is a black woman. That's exciting news, since it should breathe new life into the franchise. And, breathing new life is the problem. There's no real risk taken by trying to tout a 'woke' attitude with your franchise when you're really only doing it to look 'woke.' James Bond is already a hugely successful franchise, worldwide, so they not only have nothing to lose by replacing the race and gender of their namesake character, they also have nothing to lose because anyone who cries out against it looks like (and likely is) a xenophobe, a sexist, a racist, or all of the above. This vindicates the action from the studio if it acts like it's being martyred for being fair and progressive. In either case, it requires little courag

Now, I have plenty of avid follower to attest to my impeccable use of modern technology. If I need information, for fun or research, my use of modern technology is the pool from which I draw to fulfill every needful thing for this blog, as well as my other blog, as well as conversations where I need to prove someone wrong. I definitely never squander this access to information, never before seen by humankind--namely, I certainly haven't spent well over an hour or five playing a video game or multiple video games; I completely stay away from articles that have no useful information; and, I have never spent an entire morning, afternoon, evening, and part of the night (let's say up till 3 a.m.) watching various TV shows, movies, and internet videos. However, our young companions in this world aren't as responsible with technology as I am, and some are even worse liars. They (we) have so much at their (our) actual fingertips, resources we had to really look for in the p