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A new study has revealed that readers are unable to distinguish poetry from artificial intelligence (AI) systems and humans and even tend to prefer AI-generated poems.
“Because those who don’t know art are not in esteem”he wrote Luís Vaz de Camões in Canto V, from Os Lusíadas (1572) – far from artificial intelligence and very close to guessing the World, almost 500 years later…
According to a study this Thursday in Scientific Reportsmost readers cannot even distinguish classic works from imitations generated by artificial intelligence. More: when asked which they prefer, they often choose AI poetry.
The researchers Brian Porter and Edouard Macheryfrom the University of Pittsburgh, in the United States, tested the ability of 1,634 participants to distinguish poetry generated by AI and written by a poet.
Randomly, they were presented with ten poems: five written by ten well-known poets, including William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and TS Eliot, and five produced by the ChatGPT3 tool, in the style of these poets.
The researchers found that participants were more likely to say that poems generated by the AI tool were written by a person, when the five poems they considered least likely to be produced by humans were actually all written by poets. .
“More than 78% of our participants gave, on average, higher ratings to AI-generated poems than to human-written poems by famous poets,” said Brian Porter, quoted by .
In a second experiment, 696 participants evaluated 14 characteristics of the poems, namely, quality, beauty, emotion, rhythm and originality.
Participants were randomly assigned to three groups, where they had information that the poems were written by a person, produced by AI, or had no information about the origins of the poem.
According to the study, participants who were told that the poems were generated by AI gave lower ratings on 13 characteristics, compared to participants who were told that the poems were written by humans, regardless of whether the poems were actually generated by AI or written by poets.
However, participants who were not informed about the authorship of the poems rated verses produced by AI more favorably than those written by people.
