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It is very good. The line "ChatGTP" caught my attention, cause I was using it for my story. It is amazing that you can write it all by yourself! I love the last two lines. If you want, you can check me out! Keep writing, because you are very good at it! ;D

Is this original? Cause it is so good. I cannot make one except using ChatGTP lol . I like the rhyming and the quotes!

Hello Plume! I found the poem vey interesting. For me, the first two lines caught my eyes.
[qoute]You say you asked your friend, ChatGPT---
Well, I asked the pocket prophet that I kept.[/quote] Mostly the second line. I think the narrator is imagining their inner voice as the pocket prophet, which I find very cool since I have a lot of voices in my head already ><

I asked your mother, whom I barely caught,
She said you never do return her calls.
I asked your little sister what she thought,
She said you don't play dolls with her at all.

The monsters 'neath my bed howled and screamed.

hi there!

I openly dislike AI, and it is timely to critique it in art; AI reliance has gotten to a point where it is disastrous for humanity: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. Opening this poem by referring to ChatGPT as a 'friend' critiques overdependence on impersonal, machine-generated advice in personal matters, which is growing more pressing by the day. It is ironic when juxtaposed with emotion that comes from very human sources--whether it is grief, neglect, gods, or monsters--and I feel that highlights what AI can't replace.

A sonnet is very fitting for the theme of this poem since it is very structurally rigorous and yet associated with the most creativity in any structure of poetry. When faced with rules that could limit your creative freedom, most people will change them. I think that the question-and-answer format here does that nicely! The narrator is reaching for understanding / accountability in a world where that is falling farther out of reach; poets do this all the time when placed in boundaries that make it more difficult to express certain ideas. Rhyme schemes and meter *seem* unapproachable, but they are what you make of them.

I thought that the interrogative narrative was self-referential, "Well, I asked the pocket prophet that I kept." The narrator is consciously curating their sources, both real and fantastical, and by doing so, builds a narrative that grows increasingly surreal. I think this is meant to create a sense of desperation / frustration with what is happening around them; creative spaces and intellectual freedom seem to very important to them. Bitterness is not connotationally negative at all times, and it is cathartic in this context.

That does bring me to one point: If your narrator is relying on external voices, that is, by association, putting them on the same sort of pedestal that they critique. The narrator undermines the addressee by citing a range of external voices--completely fair, since AI is destructive--but it comes across as accusatory rather than genuinely constructive. Those sources are treated as arbiters of truth / moral clarity, just as someone could use AI to do the same thing. The only difference is that they are seen as more *acceptable* to certain jurisdictions of people, e.g. artists and writers.

A chorus of voices does not narrate your poem; your narrator does. It is clear that the narrator knows the person they are talking to, so you have lots of opportunities to develop their lived experience! The narrative is shaped entirely by others' reactions. The 'you' in question could respond, or there could be a response that comes personally from their little sister / mother.

I hope this helps; this topic means a lot to me! :]

lina