No winners in this game

The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:

The poem takes on a recognizable and genuinely felt subject: the exhaustion of navigating media saturated with hostility. That emotional starting point is real and relatable, which gives the piece a foundation worth building on. The challenge is that the current draft stays mostly at the level of description rather than discovery, and the craft elements need significant attention before the feeling lands with the force it deserves.

On rhyme and meter: the poem commits to end rhyme but inconsistently, and the line lengths vary without a clear rhythmic logic. In the first stanza "about" and "shout" work, but "crazy" is left hanging. The second stanza rhymes "around" and "hounds," which is adequate, but the lines feel padded to reach those rhymes rather than shaped by them. When rhyme drives word choice rather than precision, the poem pays a cost in authenticity. "This antithesis of great" is a clear example: the phrase is awkward and abstract because it exists primarily to close the stanza. It would be worth deciding either to pursue a tighter, more disciplined formal scheme or to abandon rhyme and let the lines find their own natural cadence.

On imagery: "angry rabid hounds" and "merry-go-round of blame" are familiar territory. The poem would be stronger if it could offer one specific, unexpected image that the reader has not encountered before. What does this particular speaker see, hear, or remember that no one else would describe in quite this way? That specificity is where poems become memorable rather than merely agreeable.

On diction: words like "proper," "willful," and "persistent" carry little weight here. They gesture at meaning without committing to it. Similarly, the robot metaphor in stanza four is introduced and dropped without development. If that comparison is worth making, it deserves more than two

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 the theme, but I think that the meter could use a little touch-up. 
Try to meet the cooperating line with the same or close number of beats. Read your piece aloud, it will show you where the bumps are!

Here are a couple of adjusted lines, what do you think?

[See] the persistent aggression

For [just the proper] moment,

I'm sure that you can come up with something equally as good for the rest of it.

I understand the title. ~ Geez.

you still should fix these lines:

Programmed to spout [their] hate.

And who gets to win [it?]