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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Send your AMA questions to sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

– Ethan’s Response to Ep 171

– Ep 171: Into the Black

– When Good Becomes Too Good: The Curious Case of AI Poetry by John Nosta

– AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably by Brian Porter and Edouard Machery

– The complete set of data and experimental materials from the Porter and Machery study

– The complete set of poems used in the Porter and Machery study

– ChatGPT’s Poetry Is Incompetent and Banal by Ernest Davis

– Ding Liren

– Gukesh Dommaraju

– Game Changer by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan

– Ep 101: Lucky Ruins, ft. Stephen Marche

– Justin Vernon with (also a bold revival of pop-music saxophone) and without (a real delight if you’re a Bonnie Raitt fan) Auto-Tune

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Chris Childers

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith