by Steven Kent

“Oxford lets OpenAI train its models on Bodleian Library”
—The Guardian

AI’s enrolled at Oxford, but imagine its frustrations
Decoding academic cant in all those dissertations.
The bots will beg for mercy (“Have a heart, man; be a mensch!”)
To shun obscurant theories propounded by the French:
Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida could drive them now to say,
“We quit! Dear God, who talks like this? Please, not PMLA!”

PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association