On the Significance of Poetry in ChatGPT Era

Abstract

ChatGPT is essentially a technical tool. However, unlike the previous technical tools, it is more anthropomorphic and can be taken as another deepening of application of digital technology in human life. Its advantages are beyond all doubt. Its deeper limitation and possible harm lie in that it will alienate natural people’s thinking and psychology of receiving world information, to certain extent. To overcome the new split between rationality and sensibility brought by ChatGPT, we need stronger and more independent natural creativity of human beings, and poetry is the best way to cultivate this creativity of human beings. There are three ways for poetic thinking to strengthen human creativity: creatively understand and use content of the dialogue with ChatGPT with poetic thinking; integrate poetic thinking and machine thinking; have to create a new way of thinking in the era of ChatGPT, by transcending machine thinking through poetic thinking.