Readers rated AI-mimicry of Shakespeare’s poems above the author’s real works North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy
Most readers can’t distinguish classic works by poets such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson from imitations generated by artificial intelligence. And when asked which they prefer, they often chose the AI poetry.
“Over 78 per cent of our participants gave higher ratings on average to AI-generated poems than to human-written poems by famous poets,” says Brian Porter at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
Porter and his team prompted OpenAI’s…
