Sun glances on the run

Sonnenblicke auf der Flucht is a poem based on artificial intelligence from 2018. It belongs to the area of computer-aided text generation in digital poetry , which began with the first computer-generated poems at the end of the 1950s.

A Viennese advertising agency said it had algorithms process the entire work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller and the artificial intelligence created its own poems based on this data. The poem consists of 13 verses arranged in four stanzas of different lengths.

Made on the run in a
   night of shivers.

[...]

Soulful dances and holy lips of
    shame.
Flames in the hallway, light in the
    throats.
Evil prevails in the meadow, the
    gods run.
Bells ring, thunder vibrate.

(Excerpt from Sonnenblicke auf der Flucht , 2018)

The poem was published in a publication by the Frankfurter Verlagsgruppe Holding AG.

The lyricist Ulla Hahn received it on World Poetry Day and, according to her own statement, did not notice that it was a poem written by a machine, even if she judged the poem to be nothing new and found that it tried to “build up meaning by reducing meaning ".

The poem sparked debates about the reception of computer-generated works, which, according to Kathrin Passig, can easily have aesthetic effects when it comes to poetry or abstract art, i.e. works that can be interpreted very openly. From this point of view, glances of the sun on the run are judged to be less astonishing. Machines are "design specialists" and make suggestions from which people can then choose.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ronald Pohl : Artificial Intelligence as a Poet. When the machine learned to be a classic. In: The Standard . March 21, 2018, accessed March 28, 2019 (9:47 am).
↑ Saskia Reither: Computer poetry. Studies on the modification of poetic texts by the computer . transcript, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89942-160-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ Ronald Pohl : Artificial Intelligence as a Poet. When the machine learned to be a classic. In: The Standard . March 21, 2018, accessed July 26, 2019 at 5:39 pm.
↑ Quoted from: Ronald Pohl : Artificial Intelligence as Poet. When the machine learned to be a classic. In: The Standard . March 21, 2018, accessed July 26, 2019 at 5:39 pm.
↑ Ulla Hahn : Literature and AI. Reason is also a matter of the heart. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 10, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .
↑ Oliver Pfohlmann: Lecture on features, internet and bots. Oh dear, the AI writes! In: Taz . July 21, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019 .

[Standard-1] A ^b Ronald Pohl : Artificial Intelligence as a Poet. When the machine learned to be a classic. In: The Standard . March 21, 2018, accessed March 28, 2019 (9:47 am).

[2] Saskia Reither: Computer poetry. Studies on the modification of poetic texts by the computer . transcript, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89942-160-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[3] Ronald Pohl : Artificial Intelligence as a Poet. When the machine learned to be a classic. In: The Standard . March 21, 2018, accessed July 26, 2019 at 5:39 pm.

[4] Quoted from: Ronald Pohl : Artificial Intelligence as Poet. When the machine learned to be a classic. In: The Standard . March 21, 2018, accessed July 26, 2019 at 5:39 pm.

[Hahn-5] Ulla Hahn : Literature and AI. Reason is also a matter of the heart. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 10, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .

[6] Oliver Pfohlmann: Lecture on features, internet and bots. Oh dear, the AI writes! In: Taz . July 21, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019 .