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On 11/17/2024 9:17 PM, Retrograde wrote:
>  From the «fer fuck's sake, William» department:
> Title: AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards
> Author: Lindsay Clark
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 09:41:10 +0000
> Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/ai_poetry_study/
> 
> Uncultured swine prone to believe complexity of verse is machine-generated
> babble
> 
> A study in the US has found that readers can't tell the difference between
> poems written by famous poets and those written by AI aping their style. To
> make matters worse – for anyone fostering a love of literature at least –
> research subjects tend to like AI poetry more than they do verse from human
> poets.…

That's bizarre.  I can usually spot AI from a mile away.  Things 
"written" by AI are very repetitive and vague, generally.