Study Finds AI Poetry Rated Higher Than Shakespeare's

Research reveals that non-experts often prefer AI-generated poems over those by renowned human poets.

University of Pittsburgh researchers conducted a study involving 1634 participants who evaluated poems by AI and famous poets like Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot.
AI-generated poems were often mistaken for human creations, with participants rating them higher in beauty and rhythm when the author was unknown.
Participants struggled to accurately identify the authorship of poems, indicating difficulty in distinguishing between AI and human works.
In a separate evaluation, AI poems outperformed human ones in 13 of 14 categories, but scored lower when authorship was disclosed.
Despite AI's success in poetry and humor, researchers note AI's limitations in producing longer, indistinguishable texts like novels.