[rikroots]

I'm wary about using AI models to generate stuff for me - I still bristle from the time a model told me that "JS Sets are faster than Arrays" and I believed it, until I discovered that it forgot to add the important piece of information: for Arrays containing tens of thousands of elements. Which made me feel stupid.

Still, I find the models to be excellent synthesisers of vast quantities of data on subjects in which I have minimal prior knowledge. For instance, when I wanted to translate some Lorca and Cavafy poems into English I discovered that ChatGPT had excellent knowledge of the poems in their native languages, and the difficulties translators faced when rendering them into English. Once I was able to harness the models to assist me translate a poem, rather than generate a translation for me (every LLM is convinced it's a Poet), I managed to write some reasonable poems that met my personal requirements.

I wrote about the experience here: https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/blog/adventures-in-poetry...