FruitFly

The explanation the AI provides on what it intends to do, and what it does, is more competant than its execution. The execution is dependant upon the commentary. But it is overall surprising; the choices the AI makes as to what genetic elements to insert where, is based upon a reading of the sonnets, it is not random insertion.

That the AI chose to execute my request in the way it did, by inserting elements from the genetic map provided to it, is likely down to its previous encounter with two sonnets I wrote when a nursing student, and which I had fed into Gemini along with many other poems, requesting a thematic analysis. Out of curiosity, you know. The two sonnets are these:

Retroviral Sonnets

1.

LecithoTRopic monologue, reflexive,
as if I was dissected by a blade
not occams: in what manner should iiiiii live?
the voice again revising what is said
like a vivisected GuineApiG,
or cataloguing each alternative
like a POLynologist. VIF
VPR VPU TranslATe, irruptive!
in a small clear quietude i sat still
and listened to those REVenant voices
like fresh emergent fruitflies swarming towards a mirroring hereafter.
i tried to ENerVate my will
and simplify my NEwFangled choices;
i touched the one! and it broke down into LaughTeR.

2.

articulate, like a LobsTeR marching
forward GrAspinG at infitesimals,
my PanOpLy maneouvering!
i attuned my senses to decimals
and less, and tensed. VerIFy this: something
rewrit me from the inside out! VPR
VPU a drill bit script, a strange unzipping.
my thermopylae was interior!
a hothouse flower, an unsubstantial
epiphenomenon, my roots more real
than i, i was in constant REnerVation
but always growing older: i ENVied
what i was that would outlive me, the real
real, that lauNchEs Fruitflies with a brief infLecTion rrrRrrrrrr

These two sonnets differ from the base sonnets used for Gemini in that their content (irrespective of the genetic intrusion) is themed by the idea of a retrovirus.

I had expected more from Gemini.

Maybe the issue is partly me.

Maybe the collaboration needs tuning at my end.