Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible
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Contrary to previous research, the study also found that participants ranked AI-generated poems higher in terms of overall quality than human-written poems.
The authors propose that non-expert readers prefer AI-generated poems because they find them more straightforward and accessible.
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“Perhaps then the issue isn’t whether AI can write better poetry, but more about what people think poetry is,” she added. “Is it a set of rhymes? A sense of musicality easily manufactured? Or is it something indefinable? As well as this the samples they used to create the algorithm are very old examples, and all white male middle- to upper-class writers. In other words, AI is creating what people think poetry is and not what it actually is.