Am I an AI is an experiment in how a piece of writing can come together when most of the words come from somewhere else.
It pairs each of 59 Lojong slogans — short, oblique instructions from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition — with a recent news story whose underlying tension echoes the slogan. An AI assistant looks for that resonance, lifts passages from the article, and arranges them into a found poem. A human writes the closing line — (says the AI, but I don't think that's true, but it happened long long ago, in a time... — nico)
The form is unceremoniously ripped off of Victoria Adukwei Bulley's "The Ultra-Black Fish," a poem composed almost entirely of journalistic prose about a scientific discovery. The premise here is similar: trust the source material, intervene only where the poem needs you to. Just have Claude try to be the poet. What do you think? Is she poetic?
Lojong is at this point just a demonstration rather than an active project.