AI & Other Unconscious Pretenders

Humans rely more than ever on AI for information and help with a myriad of routine tasks. But it's a weird symbiotic relationship because AI gleans its data from human activity on the web, dipping even into the pool of casual bloggers. I've noticed an unusual uptick in my traffic and suspect it is more from AI bots scraping my data (and maybe yours, too) than random people searching the Internet. Bots have an insatiable appetite, aptly addressed in an article (hopefully written by a human) HERE. The fact that we incidentally feed a beast that learns from us was of no consequence to the squirrel, however, on a blue sky day when I met real and fake creatures along my way, inspiring my poem below. You might also enjoy reading AI's beautifully and instantly crafted response (bottom of post) when I asked it to compare itself to humans.

   

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Angels & Demons

Looking for blue to peek through the hazy skies lately. Along my way I've been thinking about the Ukrainian girl who traveled to America for safety and ended up dead due to a stranger's violent psychotic act. Angels sent her from her homeland believing in safer outcomes but something demonic found her regardless. And tragically no angels helped the mother calling/pleading for help for her mentally ill son before he became a killer. I have no explanation why bad things happen to innocent people, just a poem that ponders the coexistence of good and evil, each causing random ripple effects from which we cannot detach.

   

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The Proposal

Friends with cameras in hand gleefully hid behind shrubbery and trees to record the proposal happening at the beach. I do not know the couple and simply stumbled upon the momentous event, though I wished them well on their journey together. The scene full of hope was ideal inspiration for the “tell us something good” prompt from Poets and Storytellers United, resulting in a few words by me, aka Penelope.

As I walked further along, I saw a couple of crows scouring for food. These creatures are known for being family oriented and quite chatty, although their cawing "tweets" can be unpleasant to the human ear and their faces appear quite angry. But who can say if in their world, these two are the romance of the season like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. We share the same Earth with all creatures but live on different planets.

In my world right now, the sky is a dusky smokey smudge as I scan for rain clouds ...

and, in his world, the beagle sniffs for love notes written in the dusty sand.

Explore more at Poets and Storytellers United, SKYWATCH and Saturday's Critters. 

Check out my sites: Postcards from Penelope Puddle and Musings of A Puddlist In B.C.

Because the state of our planet is the most pressing issue of our time, link up and learn about the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.

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