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Apertus (Public AI) versus ChatGPT in a poetry challenge

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I love the idea of the Swiss AI Initiative’s Apertus and Public AI. As sort of the Linux of LLMs, Apertus, via the Public AI Initiative, aspires to democratize generative AI: Public AI refers to the development, deployment, and maintenance … Continue reading →

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Writing exercise – “Common Comrades” (a horror poem)

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

This poem was a response to a writing-exercise prompt for my writing group. My original plan was to submit to literary journals with hopes of publishing. I haven’t done that sort of thing in many, many years and would like … Continue reading →

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Moonlight in Vermont

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Listening to this song tonight, which I’ve always liked, I suddenly realized that its verses are haikus I always sensed that its structure was different from most other songs, and I’ve also always found the lyrics evocatively poetic. But never … Continue reading →

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A haiku for October

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

As I was researching AI and art/text generation, doing prep for tomorrow’s Digital Society class, I came across a website purporting to use AI to create poetry. Skeptical but intrigued, I followed the prompts to enter a noun, an adjective, … Continue reading →

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A September haiku

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

My slightly melancholy ode to the fleeting season . . . September Swallows gathering Morning fog on the water Summer has ended I was looking for a video of swallows gathering to illustrate and found this one. Yikes! Calling Alfred … Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise – “You left something behind”

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I haven’t posted one of these exercises in a while. In fact, to my surprise, it has been well over a year! To recap: My longtime writing group (we’ve been together since 1991!) does short exercises to share each time … Continue reading →

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Rupi Kaur, Stealth Bestseller

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

In looking over the bestseller lists in the Saturday/Sunday Wall Street Journal this weekend, I was surprised to see two books on the “combined” nonfiction list by an author I’d never heard of. Additionally, although that combined list usually features … Continue reading →

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