A study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that poems created by AI are often perceived as better than those written by humans. Participants in the study, who were not poetry experts, were more likely to believe that AI-generated poems were written by humans than those actually written by people.
During the study, participants were shown poems by ten famous English-language poets, as well as poems generated by ChatGPT 3.5 in the style of these poets. The poets included Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Dorothea Lasky.
The results showed that the likelihood of a human-written poem being recognized as human was only 75% of the likelihood that an AI-generated poem would be recognized as human. The authors of the study suggest that non-expert readers prefer AI-generated poems because they seem simpler and more accessible to them.
