In an experiment conducted by University of Pittsburgh researchers Brian Porter and Edouard Machery, 1,634 participants rated ten poems. Five of them were written by great poets such as William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson, while the other five were created by ChatGPT3.5 in their own style. The results showed that participants were more likely to mistakenly believe that the AI’s poems were written by a human, and that the poems that participants thought were least human were the works of real poets.
In the second experiment, involving 696 people, participants rated poems on fourteen attributes, including quality, emotion, and originality. AI-generated poems scored higher when participants were not informed about the poem’s origins. However, participants who were told that the poem was written by an artificial intelligence gave the poem lower scores in most criteria.
Scientists believe that humans prefer poetry to AI because their poetry seems more understandable and accessible than the works of classical poets, who are sometimes perceived as complex and incomprehensible.
Source: Ferra
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