with Sophie Taylor. Writing Robots.

First broadcast 14 April 2022

Sophie Taylor is a writer and visual artist. She talks to me about a poetry collection she doesn’t want to publish. It was written by an AI text generator, and it’s called deep / FALSE!

In the collection Sophie processes low-fi revenge porn. She emptied notes, police interviews, unsent emails, shopping lists, and voice memos into AI text generators. The AI learned elements of her language and created a parody of her voice to create the poems. The AI not only created fake cultural references and verse, but slowly started telling jokes and even giving advice.

Links of interest

Sophie’s website is here: ⁠Www.mrsophie.com⁠ It includes examples of her text, audio, and visual work, as well as her radio show 'Polyfilla' on No Bounds Radio.

The Aphex Twin poetry anthology to which Sophie has contributed is here: ⁠https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/you-ve-got-so-many-machines-richard-an-anthology-of-aphex-twin-poetry⁠ It’s published by Broken Sleep books and is edited by Rishi Dastidar and Aaron Kent.

Star and Shadow Cinema: ⁠Star and Shadow Programme⁠

The Paper (Good Press): ⁠The Paper – Good Press — good books & more