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Attention algorithm

Everything wants my attention 

They can have it

It's not mine 

I will sell all of my assets

To appease 

The rich online 

 

I will look at what you want

I will watch it as I cry

I will give you all I've got

So you can train your ai

 

I am just a human being

Inferior to the bots

So I will keep watching 

As my attention span gets lost

 

And I will never find it

In the essays far too long

In the scroll that goes forever

Or the ads that just go on 

 

As my own intelligence 

Slowly drips down the drain

I will be complicit

To all of your mind games

 

And I try to avoid them

But I always crave

The dopamine algorithm 

The infinite escape

 

But when I do escape there

I am not in real life

My body's getting older

But I left behind my mind

 

Oh well 

I already lost it

So let's just scroll 

One more time

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Commments

Crypid

Mon 15th Dec 2025 08:18

Don’t worry I I not write this with ai, I am very anti ai over here! The poem was (somewhat) about ai so that’s why I tagged it with such, sorry for the confusion, I added anti ai to the tags to hopefully clear that up but I see why you would think it was. Thanks for the compliment though!

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Greg Freeman

Mon 15th Dec 2025 08:10

This is too good a poem to have been written by AI ... I hope!

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