AI and Poetry

There has been a lot of discussion recently about AI generated poetry and how we should deal with it. There doesn't appear to be an easy answer as to how to identify it.

Call me lazy, but personally I'm not even going to try to deal with it. It gives me a headache!

Here is an interesting article about AI poetry and the human response to it.

AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably

From the article:

[A study] 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. Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.

...AI without human intervention or specialized fine-tuning. Like AI-generated paintings and faces, AI-generated poems are now “more human than human”: we find that participants are more likely to judge that AI-generated poems are human-authored, compared to actual human-authored poems. Contrary to previous studies, we also find that participants rate AI-generated poems more highly than human-written poems across several qualitative dimensions. However, we confirm earlier findings that participants evaluate poems more negatively when told that the poem is generated by AI, as opposed to being told the poem is human-written.