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Readers are unable to reliably differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry and are more likely to prefer AI poems, according to new research published in Scientific Reports. This tendency to ...

The boundaries between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly blurred. A recent study reveals that readers struggle to distinguish poetry generated by AI from that written ...

Large-scale language models can generate natural sentences that sound as if they were written by humans, and in some cases it can be difficult to tell that an AI has written the sentence unless you ...