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        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


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