How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA

Sasha Stiles explores the intersection of poetry and artificial intelligence, considering poetry as an ancient technology for transmitting vital information.
She utilized GPT-2, an early version of AI language models, to experiment with text generation and eventually created a unique AI-collaborative poetry piece.
Her 2019 experimentation with GPT-2 involved feeding her own poetry lines into the model to explore the outputs and developed it further using a trained dataset of her own writing style.
Her major project, “A Living Poem”, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was an evolving hour-long poem that integrated AI, visuals, and her voice in real-time.
She sees both poetry and AI as forms of hybrid intelligences that blend algorithmic processes with human expression, viewing both as mechanisms for fostering self-awareness and consciousness.