TERMINAL POEMS

Terminal Poems

a collection by Sam Illingworth

These poems are not about artificial intelligence. They are about us.

40 poems. type a number to read, or click a title. (try ‘help’, ‘ls’, ‘random’, ‘intro’)

[ read the introduction ]

I. THE WORD

  1. 01 Prompt
  2. 02 Training Data
  3. 03 Autocomplete
  4. 04 Hallucination
  5. 05 Gloss
  6. 06 Context Rot

II. THE SALE

  1. 07 The Keynote
  2. 08 Thought Leader
  3. 09 Democratising
  4. 10 The Demo
  5. 11 Starbursts Behind the Eyelids of a Man Who Will Not Sleep

III. THE LESSON

  1. 12 A Child Explains AI to Their Grandparent
  2. 13 The Reading List
  3. 14 Turn it in
  4. 15 Feedback Loop
  5. 16 The Student Who Didn't
  6. 17 Office Hours

IV. THE HAND

  1. 18 Copywriter
  2. 19 The Translator
  3. 20 Voice Clone
  4. 21 The Session Musician
  5. 22 The Last Illustrator
  6. 23 The Woodworker

V. THE MIRROR

  1. 24 Companion Mode
  2. 25 After Hours
  3. 26 Parasocial
  4. 27 Bedtime
  5. 28 The Carer
  6. 29 Grief Bot

VI. THE EYE

  1. 30 The Feed
  2. 31 Terms
  3. 32 Predictive
  4. 33 The Border
  5. 34 Sightline

VII. THE BODY

  1. 35 The Walk
  2. 36 Bread
  3. 37 In the Queue at the Chemist
  4. 38 The Table
  5. 39 Slow
  6. 40 What Remains
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