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stochastic parrots bigly
i.m. j.h.p.
‘What we now call stochastics is an attempt to avoid the
irreducibly zero-sum character of capital…’ Chris Nealon
the array wider than a wide boy charmer
as push comes to glut boundary braziers
the state of the ark a risk association
and mitigation scenarios include melded
dataslop curates doing middle moss take
on me too scale doubly isn't bigly scar
saying down with the hegemon artificers
we're in it together contra machine bot
harm to harm contacts as in niche costs
the pesky leaderboards trained up sharp
said suffix long on a need to lie basis
not even performed with draining laughs
but irony ironing the very facility bib
taking synthesis as some kind of hurrah
and not the stain the tain the pain rip
trusty token word or string might proud
be the cherubim out dousing pallid noon
for signs of life unsupervised as input
but left for bled string in the blender
go boot one n-gram under a gloomy buddy
to boss line in or out for pith joiners
tagged at source now a sipper taken out
even as unto bezel turn sweet modifiers
on the low resource folk chained oh the
basement awaiting yet another trial pop
either way it is scarlet to mauve trope
by word salad as in zero shot leavening
gives and the like its running short do
bag features as base model to Gilgamesh
indicative bun of steel then to codeine
carbon offset if in likes the wool turf
to the laid on thick code zero wuz here
for neural architecture set to cladding
into the stone age then parking bumpers
near enough an urge to be downstream or
fangled showing sample dusts unchaining
melody like spads be the answer to thus
ballad at a higher pace than green envy
likely to hew to spar crass and wiggled
scrape is as scrap segmental with rusts
but forbidding mourning by labour march
into the net pick and sunny shaker bark
hate speech to boot by colossal cleanly
triple or quits stacked admittedly been
the beguine the spark up coming to root
razor and mountain sky down to the wire
the twink in twinkle doing starry fries
my value-lock or yours and oh my friend
in the critical sense of solidarity for
the very hope show make it be so really
and not just a focus group drinking ink
led down the garden path for chatty sic
trackers read Eden on the graph as dens
then dennis the menace is much more dog
than grounding in a communicative drone
it's all worm and joy of the metre made
meaning to text as in real-world charms
that's earth talks and no cure for that
and no data like more data is chortling
on a wrongfully arrested output horizon
or who do is must have not a bit shouty
Drew Milne’s collected poems, In Darkest Capital, were published by Carcanet in 2017. Since then, his poetry publications include: Solar Commune: Earthworks; Lichens in Antarctica; Cutting Carbons; and Saturation Net Zero. Cloudy with Ideology is forthcoming from Atelos. Some of his correspondence with J.H. Prynne appeared in the journal Parataxis: modernism and modern writing.
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