Editing Generative art (section)

===Literature===
{{further|Generative literature|The Eureka|Electronic literature|Spam Lit|Informationist poetry|Language game|Prehistoric Digital Poetry}}

Writers such as [[Tristan Tzara]], [[Brion Gysin]], and [[William Burroughs]] used the [[cut-up technique]] to introduce randomization to literature as a generative system. [[Jackson Mac Low]] produced computer-assisted poetry and used algorithms to generate texts; [[Philip M. Parker#Automatically generated books|Philip M. Parker]] has written software to automatically generate entire books. [[Jason Nelson]] used generative methods with speech-to-text software to create a series of digital poems from movies, television and other audio sources.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Flores |first1=Leonardo |title=The Battery Life of Meaning: Speech to Text Poetry |url=http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=324 |website=I love E-Poetry |date=29 June 2012 |access-date=9 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704155151/http://iloveepoetry.com/?p=324 |archive-date=4 July 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the late 2010s, authors began to experiment with [[Artificial neural network|neural networks]] trained on large language datasets. [[David Jhave Johnston]]'s ''[[ReRites]]'' is an early example of human-edited AI-generated poetry.