Versus.exeNov’25Mozilla AI Residency, SF
Versus.exe is is the continuation of a structured poetic confrontation between human and machine. Each session begins with a prompt: arrival, anger, joy, shame, solitude. The machine responds instantly. The poet responds in 30 minutes. Both poems are printed, placed side by side, and displayed. Visitors read, consider and vote with neon stickers. The votes are logged. The tally is recorded daily. The poems are kept. At the end of each day, the results feed back into the system. If the human wins, their poem is added to the model's training corpus. If the model wins, its output becomes the day's learning for the human. This is mutual reinforcement, each side adjusting in response to the other, mediated by audience judgment, conspiring to further poetry.