AI Poetry Surpasses Human Verse in Reader Preferences, Study Finds

A new study reveals readers often prefer AI-generated poetry over works by famous poets like Shakespeare and Plath.

Researchers used ChatGPT-3.5 to generate poems mimicking styles of ten renowned poets, including Shakespeare and Dickinson.
Participants struggled to differentiate between AI and human-authored poems, correctly identifying them only 46% of the time.
AI-generated poems were rated higher on average by participants unaware of the poems' origins, suggesting a preference for clarity.
Despite the preference for AI poetry, participants expressed a bias towards human authorship when informed of the origin.
The study highlights AI's ability to produce accessible poetry, though it lacks the experiential depth of human-created works.