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AI Writing is a Very Specific Kind of Bad (opens the original)
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Recently, I saw reporting on yet another study purporting to determine whether people prefer human-written or AI-generated literature. This time the contest compared short stories, and as in a previous study focusing on poetry, the machines won out. The blind cohort gave the AI-generated samples better reviews; only those who were told which stories had been written by a human tended to vote in their favour. This might seem a grave por
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