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This item has caused ripples across educator social media (and increasing angst among English teachers). The story is in the headline (which is what a good headline should do). "People now appear unable to reliably distinguish human-out-of-the-loop AI-generated poetry from human-authored poetry written by well-known poets," write the authors, though of course people who have memorized Shakespeare can presumably tell the difference. "Furthermore, people prefer AI-generated poetry to human-authored poetry, consistently rating AI-generated poems more highly than the poems of well-known poets." In fairness, I'm no fan of the well-known poets; give me some contemporary Dylan or Swift any day.

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