AI is Coming for Your Children
A Poem Inspired by a Behind the Bastards Episode
Writing prompts are like casting a spell
Artificial intelligence is creating a hell
What they’re hiding is
There’s no math in good writing
You can’t calculate emotion
Or the feel of the ocean
It checks every box
But doesn’t understand what they are
Is it a tree?
Or is it a car?
Without worry or care
We stare
And jump straight into soulless auto-generation
A maniacally meaningless mess
Something that our minds can’t digest
The world behind the character
A Seussian vibe I can’t abide
Random music signs
Hung like garlands on vines
Strung from branchless trees
These things
We need none of these
The shapeless heads bring us to our knees
Increasingly divorced from reality
Take us back
Back to the days of the humans
The humans that created all we read and saw
From the tiniest, hungriest mouse
To great gods that ruled every house
A chorus in an echo chamber of mad cows
An unending ouroboros
Churning wild and free
A feeding frenzy for the uncreative
Pressing their luck
Just to make a buck
Only adding to the muck and mire
Of trying to afford a life they already have
One that many desire
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
Comments (5)
Just one more step in the loss of our humanity where the one is not simply ignored, it's annihilated.
Lovely work! "A maniacally meaningless mess" Amazingly articulate alliteration.
This was so accurate! Awesome work!
Just brilliant. Where's the soul in AI? I don't know why us humans are always looking for ways to get things done with minimum effort. Felt the anger in this. Hope it gets TS.
This is great. Well done, as always.