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Last November, our poetry students walked into the computer laboratory and found something new: a web interface with chat-room windows labelled “the structured studio” and “the exploratory atelier”. Each chat room ran the same artificial-intelligence chatbot that students could use to co-write poems in English, but the chatbot behaved differently between the two. In one case, the chatbot took creative risks, pushing students towards surprising metaphors; in the other, it was cautious and literal.
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