Can Poetry Be Written By Machines?

Sasha Stiles is a New York-based, first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and linguistic innovation.

Her work fuses text and technology to probe what it means to be human in an increasingly more-than-human era. Stiles is the author of Technelegy, co-founder of theVERSEverse and poetry mentor to BINA48.

The shelves of DEAR DATA hold screens and tablets showing excerpts from a generative poetry system, alongside books from the system’s training set.

At its core is an eight-stanza poem co-written by Stiles with her custom AI model, Technelegy, which serves as the seed for an “infinite scribe” that continuously produces new variations.

Through this work, Stiles demonstrates that poems are more than literal meaning — they act like compact, precise tools capable of surprising effects.

As she explains, “Poems don't just tell you what the words literally mean. They’re a bit like programming languages in that they're a very simple, efficient piece of text that, when you deploy them, do something pretty miraculous.”

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