Non-expert readers prefer poems written by artificial intelligence over those created by humans. A study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh examined how a general audience responded to poetry generated by AI.
The study presented participants with poems written by well-known English-language poets like Geoffrey Chaucer and Walt Whitman, alongside AI-generated imitations created using ChatGPT 3.5. To their astonishment, participants were more likely to mistake the AI-generated verses for human-authored works. In fact, the study, published in Nature.com, revealed that AI poems had a roughly 75% chance of being deemed human-written compared to those penned by actual poets.
