Readers rated AI-mimicry of Shakespeare’s poems above the creator’s actual works
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Most readers can’t distinguish basic works by poets corresponding to William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson from imitations generated by synthetic intelligence. And when requested which they like, they typically selected the AI poetry.
“Over 78 per cent of our members gave larger rankings on common to AI-generated poems than to human-written poems by well-known poets,” says Brian Porter on the College of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
Porter and his staff prompted OpenAI’s…
