
Readers rated AI-mimicry of Shakespeare’s poems over the author’s actual works
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Most readers cannot distinguish the classic works of poets such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson from imitations created by artificial intelligence. And when asked which they prefer, they often choose AI poetry.
“On average, 78 percent of our participants rated AI-generated poems higher than human-written poems by famous poets,” he says. Brian Porter at the University of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh.
Porter and his team pushed for OpenAI…