Salome Agbaroji

I think that's one of the things that we luck out on a bit because AI can generate music.

There hasn't yet been a believable way for AI to perform music.

We're not at that technology yet.

to create an android that looks human and dances well enough or plays the piano well enough to perform it live.

And that's one of the very special things about performance poetry specifically.

I've seen AI write horrible poems and I've seen AI a few months later write

decent poems.

And I can only assume as time progresses that AI will be able to write beautiful pieces of lyric that similarly evoke, you know, emotion and sincerity from an audience.

Okay, whatever.

But the performance element, the human engagement element of it that isn't just background noise is the thing that AI hasn't touched yet.

And I think that's a special thing.

I would say definitely not too expensive.

I tell people all the time, poetry is one of the funnest and best art forms because it costs zero money.

Poetry is the one where I can have zero budget and it's super accessible.

So in like spoken word culture, people make it their practice.

to gather.

And that's what art is in essence.

You know, sometimes technologies can complicate that.

So any narrative that kind of convolutes that, I definitely agree that there must be another motive there.

When you said the word reset, I was a bit hesitant because I'm not, again, I'm pro-AI in the ways that don't compromise human creativity in that process.