Zed Clampet
Community Contributor
I understand what it is doing and why. I'm pretty familiar with found poetry. I just wasn't sure whether the program was supposed to provide any assistance outside of randomization.Someone will probably say something since I am hogging the topic now (Hence my silence of late).
LMAO, but have a look at the video in the about section. Pretty much explains what it does. It is not supposed to write songs for you it is just to broaden your scope on possible lyrics or words. So will basically need an "Input area", random word splicing area, and an output area. Output area needs to be movable so that you can rearrange the "cut-ups".
I know it sounds dumb, but example. If you had something to broaden your spectrum on ideas for a quest in a game. Instead of the usual "I walked into a jungle", you now have maybe 17 new ideas as to how you get into the jungle by clicking two buttons..........Do not know if that makes sense like that.
Unfortunately, AI is Copyright protected and every song imaginable is too (Unfair that a computer program may own (copyright) something it stole from humans, but that's unfortunately the laws), but if I can copy and paste say yesterday's news paper article about the amazon, I might have words to a song about the amazon tomorrow night.
The copyright pitfalls are potentially significant depending on the sources used. In addition to letting you copy/paste whatever you want into it, we could provide some optional (not guaranteed) tools for producing text that lowers the odds of copyright infringement.
For instance, if you didn't already have text that you wanted to use, we could have an option to pull text from works in the public domain. Or if you had your own text from copyrighted material that you wanted to use, we could give you the option to have an SLM or LLM rewrite it since text generated by LLMs (or SLMs) is not considered copyrighted.
Things like this would just be extras. The full functionality of the original program would still be available to you.
I might see how well an LLM could take the jumble and reorder it to something coherent. That could be "lazy mode" where you just input text and it outputs lyrics, but I have serious doubts that this could be good or useful. Among other things, AI isn't great at semantic triage, and it is even worse than I am at writing poetry.
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Here are lyrics created by an LLM that was fed the results of Verbasizer. Warning, it's painful to read
Missiles bloom over scorched estates, Greenland’s diary whispers of flesh and flight. Teenagers pray through vapes and wildfire, A senator’s silence breaks the night. Cartels trade dreams for broken headlines, Swift’s province drowns in sovereign shame. UN paintings bleed across the coast, A drone strike sketches love in flame. The world reboots on borrowed sorrow— And still, the monkey pulls the pin.
Then I told it I wanted it to rhyme, so it gave me this:
A pilot dreams of scorched escape, The coast reclaims its silent shape. Teenage prayers in vials of smoke, The minister’s vow begins to choke. A rogue parade through shattered glass, The headlines hum a fading mass. She paints her grief in stolen light, While satellites blink out of sight.
I may be poor at writing poetry, but I can smell garbage well enough.
We should probably move this conversation to PMs. And while I don't have capacity to work on this program at the moment, the more I think about it before I start, the better it will be.