The CIA Book Club looks fascinating!

This *might* be why I have six unfinished manuscripts stored in my cloud. 🤷‍♀️

Don't know if this makes it better or worse, but it hates me too.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1.pdf

#aipoetry #creativewriting #concerned

This raises questions: Have we entered an era in which algorithms rivals human ingenuity? Or does this study reveal a shift in aesthetic sensibilities, where accessibility and spoon-fed polish eclipse the virtues of interpretive depth and linguistic challenge?

The implication is that AI’s structural clarity and rhythmic precision may render it more immediately gratifying to the reader, whereas the depth and complexity of human verse risk being misconstrued as artificial incoherence.

Participants misidentified machine-authored poetry as human at rates suggesting that conventional heuristics for evaluating poetic authenticity may no longer hold.

What does this revelation imply for our understanding of poetic arts?

They're brash, they're irreverent, and I tune in nearly every week.
open.spotify.com/episode/1UVV...

I'm not saying it's *good*. I'm just pointing out that it's there. I watched it, so someone needs to share my annoyance with the "Guys Who Yell At Ghosts" brand.
www.imdb.com/title/tt4130...

A little bit of this, a little dab of that...

Bauer, N. M., & Doole, J. A. (2022). The (Re) Invention of biblical exorcism in contemporary Roman Catholic discourses. Religion and Theology, 29(1-2), 1-33.
brill.com/view/journal...

Pietkiewicz, I. J., Kłosińska, U., & Tomalski, R. (2021). Delusions of possession and religious coping in schizophrenia: a qualitative study of four cases. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 628925.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Rashed, M. A. (2020). More things in heaven and earth: Spirit possession, mental disorder, and intentionality. Journal of Medical Humanities, 41, 363-378.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hill, S. A., O'Keeffe, C., Laythe, B., Dagnall, N., Drinkwater, K., Ventola, A., & Houran, J. (2018). " Meme-spirited": I. The VAPUS model for understanding the prevalence and potency of ghost narratives. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 18(2), 117-152.
idoubtit.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Chavez, W. S. (2021). Modern practice, archaic ritual: Catholic exorcism in America. Religions, 12(10), 811.
www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12...

Note: I try to select free and Open Access scholarly lit articles. If you can't access something, be sure to yell at me for being an ivory tower elitist. Yes, they're in APA format. Because of course they are.

Scholarly literature: I can't resist. Because if you're truly interested in a topic, this is the way to deepen a true understanding. Unlike general sources, scholarly work provides comprehensive insights, critical evaluations, and advances in knowledge essential for informed discussion and study.