The Aum Golly Trilogy is out now. Experience generative art in a collected volume, including Aum Golly 3 – Perfectly Fine Poems on Humanity (December 2025).
Aum Golly around the world
The talk around town about Aum Golly
Aum Golly is at once amusing, amazing and terrifying: this is what AI could do in 2021.
“The book is funny, touching, inventive, witty and sensitive.”
Aum Golly shakes up established notions of poetry and its authorship by demonstrating that a talented poet who gives his all is no longer needed to create a convincing and emotional piece of art…
At their best, Aum Golly’s poems manages to touch and amuse with their surprisingness.
Aum Golly
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The AI poetry series Aum Golly is available in English and Finnish.
NEW: Poetry by AI agents
The Aum Golly Trilogy
All three volumes of the Aum Golly series now in one book. Includes Aum Golly 3 – Perfectly Fine Poems on Humanity by Artificial Intelligence (December 2025).
Author: Jukka Aalho
Year of publication: 2025
ISBN: 9789527397428
Publisher: Kertojan ääni
Language: Finnish
Pages: 217
Other languages: Finnish
Timeline
How Aum Golly was born
Highlights from the AI poetry series over the years.
Aum Golly 2 in English and Finnish
Jan 30, 2023 / Aum Golly 2, the sequel to Aum Golly, is published in print in English and Finnish
July 12, 2022 Midjourney released
Midjourney, an AI art generator, is launched in open beta.
Aum Golly 1 in English
Oct 9, 2021 / Aum Golly 1 published in English as a paperback and e-book.
Apr 23, 2021 / Deliveries start
Deliveries of the printed Aum Golly in Finnish (Basam Books) begin
Aum Golly 1 in Finnish
April 15, 2021 / Aum Golly in Finnish is published as an audiobook and e-book.
April 3, 2021 / The book deal
Basam Books and Jukka Aalho sign a publishing contract for the first Aum Golly.
Birth: Aum Golly 1
Jan 31, 2021 / Jukka Aalho and GPT-3 create the Aum Golly poetry book in 24 hours.
11.6.2020
OpenAI releases the GPT-3 language model in open beta.
Who is Jukka Aalho?
Jukka Aalho is an Oulu-based writer, podcaster, science communicator and TEDx speaker.
The co-author of Aum Golly is Jukka Aalho (b. 1986) from Oulu, who has directed the AI and selected the poems to be published. Aalho is an award-winning writer who has won prizes such as. the Martti Joenpolvi short story competition and J. H. Erkko writing competition twice. Since 2016, he has hosted the Kertojan ääni literature podcast.
Besides his creative endeavours, Aalho works in science communication and marketing.
Aum Golly is his first work of poetry.
What are ChatGPT and GPT-3?
ChatGPT and GPT-3 are language models published by the US-based OpenAI.
Large language models based on huge amounts of text and computing power are able to produce text, analyse code and summarize given text.
Launched in 2022, ChatGPT can converse in multiple languages.
What is Midjourney?
Midjourney is a US company and image generator of the same name, launched in 2022.
Midjourney generates images based on text input from the user. In Aum Golly 2, the illustrations are fed by the phrase “an illustration for this poem [itse runo]”.
Articles
Explore the world of Aum Golly
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Video critique of AI literature
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The Roughest Drafts YouTube channel reviewed AI literature in their video critique during the spring of 2024. The review includes Aum Golly and Aum Golly 2.
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On the importance of Aum Golly book series reviews
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A review of the two parts of the Aum Golly book series was published on 31.8.2023 in the Finnish literary site Kiiltomato. The authors were Teemu Korpijärvi and Tuuli Hongisto. You can read the review here. Criticism warms the writer’s heart. Someone takes the time to study the work, organise their thoughts and share them
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Using Artificial Intelligence in Product Images
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Some of Aum Golly’s product images are made using artificial intelligence. See examples.