Cephalopoet

Description:

Cephalopoet is a tool for generating poems with too many arms, reminiscent of a tentacled body. Each line of an input poem becomes a tentacle. The only action available is pruning, either entire arms or pieces of text. For each arm cut, two more grow back, spiraling into a branching piece. When chopping off a tentacle (deleting a stanza, line or word), two more grow back, changing the direction of the words. When working with AI text, regenerating is one of the most common actions one takes, so when the act of cutting comes with a cost, you become much more intentional with where you're okay with the poem ballooning. In experimenting with this interface, you might feel like a frenzied gardener fighting off weeds that keep giving subpar generations: each arm grows a life of its own, where the more unsatisfied you are with a generation, the more you delete, and the more words in a similar vein you receive.