created 2025-03-27, & modified, =this.modified
Thought
It doesn’t really matter, but it does matter.
Your most favorite work, will likely be ignored. Simple+bad wins.
As AI-generated text continues to evolve, distinguishing it from human-authored content has become increasingly difficult. This study examined whether non-expert readers could reliably differentiate between AI-generated poems and those written by well-known human poets
Notably, participants were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems.
We found that AI-generated poems were rated more favorably in qualities such as rhythm and beauty, and that this contributed to their mistaken identification as human-authored.
Participants shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-human experts to understanding, leading them to prefer AI-generated poems and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.
NOTE
This last part is really the interesting. A flawed heuristic amongst amateurs (who enjoy the comprehensible and approachable).
I feel trying to find out a common end, be it simple, or abstruse, will always not work with a human poet. A human poet can write one word or be completely experimental. They can decide to be simple, and understood clearly.
Sometimes when you get wound into things, they become incomprehensible to others. You notice features, only as a group that has understood what to look for.
Indeed, this complexity and opacity is part of the poems’ appeal: the poems reward in-depth study and analysis, in a way that the AI-generated poetry may not. But because AI-generated poems do not have such complexity, they are better at unambiguously communicating an image, a mood, an emotion, or a theme to non-expert readers of poetry, who may not have the time or interest for the in-depth analysis demanded by the poetry of human poets.
One piece of evidence for this explanation of the more human than human phenomenon is the fact that Atmosphere – the factor that imagery, conveying a particular theme, and conveying a particular mood or emotion load on – has the strongest positive effect in the model that predicts beliefs about authorship based on qualitative factor scores and stimulus authorship. Thus, controlling for actual authorship and other qualitative ratings, increases in a poem’s perceived capacity to communicate a theme, an emotion, or an image result in an increased probability of being perceived as a human-authored poem.