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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

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Many participants were not able to detect when they had been misled about the origins of the text in the short stories. Photograph: Sergey Mironov/Alamy

From Homer’s Odyssey to Agatha Christie’s crime fiction, humans have produced plenty of tales to grace the bookshelf. But research suggests artificial intelligence may now be providing some competition.

In a study published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, 1,682 adults were asked to read one of six short stories, three of which were written by humans and three by ChatGPT. Each AI story had a similar theme to one of the human-authored works.

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