I know you wish that were true, because it would excuse your incuriosity. It isn't. We share the world with people who genuinely love to write and read poetry, and ignore them at our own expense.

Yes, except those people are orders of magnitude less than the ones buying the books. I'm Portuguese and had to read and analyse a lot of poetry in my younger years. I'm not an ignorant that has never been expose to any of this stuff.

I will bet you thousands of dollars that if I was already a poet with distribution I could publish a book where 80% of it was done with current llms and pass it as an my own original work.

It would still require skill and taste to prompt and filter the corpus but I'm certain it can be done with the current state of llms, let alone future ones.

But that wouldn’t make you a poet. It would make you a liar. A lazy liar.