[I am frustrated with the increase of AI bots on my territory (Tumblr, AO3, DA), so I took a stab at poetry/spoken word. It's probably not great as I have no clue what I'm doing, there's no scheme whatsoever, but I feel better and when I read it out loud it sounded decent, so mission accomplished XD]
Are we too far gone to unlearn
Are the screens too blinding
Our essence wrapped up as data and stored in a cloud
That our world evolves around
But we don't bite the hand that feeds
Is it too late to take that turn
To listen to that gnawing sense in our collective guts
Like acid, eating away at us
Reasonable doubt, slowly dissolving our trust, and we just can't look at this the same
As a self-proclaimed entity
Building bridges between two worlds using hyperlinks
Binary code turning into a labyrinth, and we are lost in a digital space
How long must we scream to emphasize?
The art of thinking is on the line, and all the while we're trading data for a dollar
Like lipstick on a collar
A smudge as red as blood, seeping between the cracks of data leaks
Wasn't knowledge supposed to be freeing?
Have we entered a state where logic no longer makes sense?
Are we blinded by the blue light or just incredibly dense?
Is advancement just a cover
A mere display of power while the light in our minds go out
It's a collective mental blackout
We're caught in a web of code we'll soon be unable to read
While we still can, we've gotta ask ourselves
Do we really wanna live in a world where all art gets lost in the artificial
And all man-made words are obsolete?
Please reset to factory settings.