Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 38, No. 319. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2025-01-13 06:54:50+00:00 From: James Rovira <jamesrovira@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Humanist] 38.316: AI, poetry and readers Bill - I said the following in the post you quote: "But in that case, the lines come from another source, so any 'intention' would be from the human source of the original poetry, not the AI that assembled the lines." That ascribes intention to the author of a poem, which means I'm not ignoring intention. I said elsewhere, in other responses, that words themselves carry intention. I mean literally the words themselves, either spoken or written. I agree that programmers and/or a program's user carry intention as well. That intention isn't directly communicated, however. The text output, the words themselves, are all that the reader has. Jim R _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php