Why I will never use AI for art

I’ve been listening to a reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy recently and in it I think that Dante mets a poet in Hell or Purgatory that comments how he and all poets steal others work. When I search online for the passage or character I cannot find reference to this but perhaps it was a dream or I made it up.

I am trying to express myself more and enter into a more artistic pursuits. With the age of AI already upon us it is not tempting to use it to create things but I have thought to myself “This poem or paragraph does not sound the best. There are spellllling mistakes everywhere in this post.”

And so I thought I could use AI to help me with this. I have now posted 2 poems. When I originally posted them they were with an AI venteer (coating for teeth. I think I spelled it wrong). I wrote these poems (especially the 1st) with my heart and soul and then tried to use AI to clean them up.

What a disaster and disservice. In some, or many, senses the AI cleanup was cleaner and flowed better. But my soul was removed and it was just a clean husk. When I asked my brother what he thought he told me:

“I was thinking about it, it’s like sewing where you could have a perfectly created jacket but then it just looks store bought, where as if there are threads hanging off and stuff looking wacky it’s showing off yeah I sewed this”

I want to create poetry because it is enjoyable to me and expresses my buried desired, my soul, my mind, my Weltanschauung. Speelling mistakes, and incorrect flow and no poetry metre may not look good, but all of this is just what I want to do actualized.

I am glad I gave up and replaced the 2 poems on my site with the original ones I wrote with my soul.