Within our search to try to replicate Edgar Allan Poe’s style and creativity, I realized that ChatGPT did demonstrate creativity in the way that it made its own unique story, but it was not effective in the way that we asked it to be. A short example is:

“We glide ‘twixt sheets of moldered silk,  ​

Where living lovers spurn our ilk,  ​

Our touch—a frost they crave, then flee,  ​

Yet still we croo our siren plea:”

In comparison to:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.”

It was not able to be as creative as Edgar Allan Poe, or match up to the level of wit that he used within his writing. This coincides with our reading where we explain how although AI may spit out a multitude of answers, it will not be able to replicate the ability to be as creative as the original person that sat down and struggled through their thought processes. As a creative individual, I would envision using genAI to assist my creativity only when I am at blocks where I am having trouble making my own ideas or thoughts. The benefits to this is that it can get the ball rolling initially and allow me to build on it, but of course the disadvantage to this is that it can become a crutch and completely take away my will and desire My definition of creativity would be someone’s ability to identify and use their own unique thoughts and interests and combine them into a certain thing or idea. Overall, our experiments this week allowed me to further think about how I am using AI to brainstorm instead of allowing myself to grow by thinking myself. Thinking for myself will allow me to become a more independent and whole individual and thinker.