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Spam poetry: Movie review

As best I can tell, the text for this spam comment was about the spectacularly awful sci-fi/horror flick Maximum Overdrive. I have no idea what language the review was originally written in, but it may well have been auto-translated twice: first out of English into another language and then back again into English. The results are almost as interesting as the film, and mercifully much shorter.

Movie review

caught in the tail of your comet
for a short time all machines have grown
self-aware far from the kingdom
this has bloodstream and guts
ancient American action and grit
at its best

Found poetry: proof of artificial intelligence?

The following appeared in my spam filter exactly as you see it except for a couple corrections to spelling and capitalization. The line and stanza breaks are also original, as is the title. It’s not particularly good, but the line breaks and some of the syntax suggested poetry to me. Since this kind of thing is auto-generated, it makes me wonder if there’s a spambot out there somewhere developing a poetic sensibility of sorts…

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illuminate
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Which can be what helps to keep you hydrated and helps electrical signals in your system (naturally too much of something can eliminate you) and you’ve however other more terrifying substances in you
also.

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Spam poetry: Forests of Puget Sound

I’ve been playing with spam lately; I find the auto-translated stuff a great source of amusement and inspiration. The wonky syntax and near-psychedelic word juxtapositions light up all kinds of brain activity. Sometimes I take whole chunks and try to punctuate them so they make some kind of sense in English; other times I lift choice bits from here and there and combine them to see what happens. Here’s my favorite poem from this morning’s work:

Forests of Puget Sound

On a great treelined side freeway, a sanctioned handsome conical
specimen with simple roots and sagging, greygreen sharp needles
matured with regard to wet, detailed mud.

Always those already established Northwest mystics (to find
a reasonably sultry painting of them) have been a far more spectral
only no less helpful presence.

We simply come across your wife’s perception openly
once, many years after the scandal.