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Lauren Morton

Oh great, readers preferred AI-written short stories over one by my favorite author in a blind test

The Sims 3 - a Sim with long blonde hir weaaring a green shirt grabs her head with both hands, screaming in dismay.

"I hate that AI can do this," is my opinion for most every value of "this" that I've seen in the past couple years. It's also what fantasy author Mark Lawrence said after pitting AI writing against flash fiction written by award-winning authors and finding that not only can readers not reliably tell the difference in a blind test, they also preferred the AI-written stories.

Earlier this month, Lawrence composed a quiz on his blog (which you can still take) with eight very short fantasy stories of about 350 words, asking readers to rate each story's quality and whether they believe it was composed by a human or AI.

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