Treesure

Daria Okhrimenko Trees are my friends because I’m a tree-hugger. They’re all the same, but there’s a little more to them than meets the eye. How do you think who might have said these words? A human being, an insect, maybe moss? This text was generated by Generative pre-trained Transformer trained on modern poetry, news text, classical European literature, popular scientific lectures. I asked The Transformer to generate text that could be said by non-human about a tree. And I was surprised when I got the results. I planned that my project will be about trees and plants. However, it turned out to be about humans. All generated texts are anthropocentric. Although I still believe that it is possible to see a forest, not a man.  Люди смотрят на дерево, задрав голову. Иногда люди смотрят с дерева сверху вниз, если им удается взобраться по стволу. Но люди не смотрят из дерева. Люди не смотрят в дерево. Взгляд нечеловеческого агента - что он может усмотреть в растениях, и как он может это передать?