A study in Nature found that people prefer AI-generated poetry over famous human poets, across several qualities. Many participants in the study couldn't differentiate between an AI generated poetry from a human generated one. The lead author of the study, Brian Porter, says that poetry is a unique form of art and AI is good at imitating it. Poets convey deepest human emotions through poetry and the fact that AI can do it too is really surprising.
For the study, the researchers included ten famous English poets including Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson and asked ChatGPT 3.5 to generate five short poems similar to the style of those poets. The study included 1,634 participants who were given one poet and a randomized list of ten of their poems, including the AI generated one. The participants had to guess which poem is original and which is AI generated.
Another group of 696 participants had to do assessment on five poems of genuine poets and five AI generated poems. The results showed that AI generated poems beat the human written poems. It was because AI generated poems used a proper structure and had specific styles of meter, rhyme and vocabulary. The researchers concluded that AI generated poems were easier to understand, even without context. In the case of human poets, readers need context sometimes to understand what is being said.
Another interesting thing was that even though most participants couldn't recognise AI generated and human written poems accurately, they still preferred human poets over AI. Ratings decrease across board if it's revealed that the poem is AI generated. This shows that poets aren't going to lose their jobs anytime soon because people still prefer reading poems written by humans.
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For the study, the researchers included ten famous English poets including Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson and asked ChatGPT 3.5 to generate five short poems similar to the style of those poets. The study included 1,634 participants who were given one poet and a randomized list of ten of their poems, including the AI generated one. The participants had to guess which poem is original and which is AI generated.
Another group of 696 participants had to do assessment on five poems of genuine poets and five AI generated poems. The results showed that AI generated poems beat the human written poems. It was because AI generated poems used a proper structure and had specific styles of meter, rhyme and vocabulary. The researchers concluded that AI generated poems were easier to understand, even without context. In the case of human poets, readers need context sometimes to understand what is being said.
Another interesting thing was that even though most participants couldn't recognise AI generated and human written poems accurately, they still preferred human poets over AI. Ratings decrease across board if it's revealed that the poem is AI generated. This shows that poets aren't going to lose their jobs anytime soon because people still prefer reading poems written by humans.
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