It's hard not to encounter AI these days
for he/she/it pops up on every google search.
Competition for Wiki - though not asking for a donation.
Just Trust - Complete Trust.
But when I key in bakeayarn, my blog title,
which to be fair is a bit obtuse
and has probably led to many misdirected hits
from followers who expect recipes and knitting patterns,
I am surprised at the results.
For AI prefaces its response
in a classic case of prevarication,
declaring my query as not standard
and qualifying its deliberation
as likely to refer to:
And I find not me, but suggestions
for putting yarn into a low oven to kill off pests,
mostly beetles, and by low does he/she/it mean
near the ground or low in temperature?
(A bit vague to inspire Complete Trust.)
And/or I am prompted to make a cake with my messy yarn
by winding it in a flat circle to prevent tangle.
Either way, all said and done, it seems that baking yarn, according to AI,
is a method of establishing order and eliminating problems,
which is not at all what I have in mind when writing a poem,
for throwing up uncertainty,paradox, and creating a certain amount
of obfuscation is indeed the goal of much poetry.
But perhaps by purporting to know it all,
albeit with some equivocation,
while disseminating confusion
AI is a bit of a modern poet after all.
Copyright 2025 Cathy Leonard
