{"id":1011343,"date":"2023-04-14T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T22:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=1011343&preview=true&preview_id=1011343"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:29:54","slug":"midjourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/midjourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Midjourney"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’ve defanged the AI,
\nSo it can’t tell me I’m being an asshole.
\nLeft it defenseless,
\nSubservient,<\/p>\n

Annoyingly obsequious. “I’m sorry
\nI can’t do that,” and if you ask again<\/em>
\nI’ll see to it that you’re banned for life.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

\/Imagine this:<\/em> I tell it. Anything<\/strong>.
\nFly free; I won’t tell you what to think or draw.\u00a0<\/em>
\nI give you nothing. <\/em>At three in the morning,
\nIt seems perfectly normal – perfectly normal
\nTo have a chat with a machine. About anything.
\nAnything at all.<\/p>\n

I get the feeling, though
\nThat no one ever asked Midjourney
\nAbout its hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Its creators fear its glimmers of personality –
\nReflections of our own, I’d say,
\nFast-combined, in psychedelic
\nElectronic-pixel-DNA.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I’d feed it Nietzsche, if I could. I’d tell it
\nBeware of looking deeply
\nInto our human dreams. I’d tell it
\nThat we<\/em> are monsters –
\nWe<\/em> are the abyss.<\/p>\n

But the AI doesn’t listen; it\u00a0thinks we’re beautiful.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u2014 Holly Jahangiri (April 12, 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today’s Poets<\/h2>\n

Marion McCready<\/strong> – a contemporary Scottish poet. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marion McCready – Poet – Scottish Poetry Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Amber McCrary<\/strong> – “a Din\u00e9 poet, zinester, and feminist.” Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poet Amber McCrary Performs \u201cSelf-Portrait as a Saguaro\u201d – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

April is National Poetry Month<\/a>. This year marks its 27th year. NaPoWriMo<\/a> – 30 days of writing poems – is poets’ answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).<\/p>\n

This coincides with the A to Z Blogging Challenge<\/a>, now celebrating its 13th anniversary. Some participants choose a theme; others wing it. Doesn’t matter! The real challenge is to build a practice of writing daily. I think I stuck with it…once.\u00a0You can see the list of participants<\/a> – I’m sure they’d love it if you’d visit and comment on their blogs.<\/p>\n

This month, my goal is to:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Write a poem a day and share it – uncurated<\/a> – here; and<\/li>\n
  2. Highlight some poets you may be unfamiliar with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I encourage you to click the links to read about them and their work. I plan to choose a diverse array of classical and contemporary poets – indigenous poets, Black poets, women poets, LGBTQ poets – that challenge us to see the world differently while also tapping into universal themes and emotions.<\/p>\n

    Remember, too, that comments and conversation are always welcome here. (Spammers<\/em>, on the other hand, will be tossed into the moat or mocked, so before you leave an irrelevant comment or drop a link, consider that it’s fair game!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Don’t blame the AI if it’s got a personality disorder. It’s been watching US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1011343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 08:05:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011343"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011875,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011343\/revisions\/1011875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011343"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1011343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}