{"id":68446,"date":"2025-07-22T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=68446"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:39:32","slug":"new-release-adds-poemswhat-ai-has-to-say-about-shadow-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/07\/new-release-adds-poemswhat-ai-has-to-say-about-shadow-words.html","title":{"rendered":"New Release Adds Poems<\/em><\/font>
What Perplexity AI Has to Say About Shadow Words<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What Perplexity AI got right, and one thing it got wrong<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And let us not forget that AI write-ups make anyone sound like a genius. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It would be cool if Perplexity AI had done some independent thinking. It has only spit back what it sees online.<\/strong><\/em> This too is accurate except for the very same mistake. It’s also more spittle.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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“Jan Herman was inspired to create these deformed sonnets by a desire to challenge conventional notions of poetry and to express himself under what he saw as ‘duress and necessity.’ Their uniqueness lies in the evocative and sometimes elusive content where the poems become reflections on selfhood, transience, and perception, This approach allows him to use the sonnet label while subverting expectations, making his work feel both familiar and radically new.” <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SHADOW-WORDS-662.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hNY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70457,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions\/70457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}