Conflicted Copy by Sam Riviere
Sam Riviere is a past master of taking and exploiting 'found' content and process and transforming it into poetry that captivates and unsettles. Here, he harnesses anxiety about AI only to exploit it for his own extraordinary ends. In this case, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2), an open source neural network , is used to produce poems that, stripped of the usual authorial clutter, find themselves nonetheless cohering around a voice that speaks of the uncertainties, fears and desires of a world that is desperately, poignantly and recognisably human. 'Riviere's machine language, often delightfully clunky, also has its magical aspects, unplugging and rebooting our perceptual apparatus as we look over the shoulder of machines clumsily figuring us out. . . In turning poetry towards machine language, Riviere quietly kicks off a poetic revolution for our time.' Guardian
Sam Riviere won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection for 81 Austerities (2012). Other titles include: Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015), After Fame (2020) and a novel, Dead Souls (2021). Born in Norwich, he currently lives in Edinburgh, where he runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571380985 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571380980 |
| Title | Conflicted Copy |
| Author | Sam Riviere |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2024-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 56 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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