ESSENTIAL PROOF FOR BLACK FUTURITY

This AI-generated poem uses a bespoke fine-tuned version of GPT3 (called Warpland), biased towards writing poetry that reflects on Black life. This poem meditates on the historical and contemporary racial tensions underlying the sociopolitical structures in the United States. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, curator of Warpland, is an African American writer, poet, artist, and educator who works at the intersection of computation, AI, race, and gender. Their fifth book, Negative Money, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2023.