AI Can Outwrite Shakespeare and Remain Hidden?
AI is making massive strides in its ability to produce human-like writing, and it is becoming almost impossible to detect.
AI writing is no longer in the elementary-school era, and LLMs are steadily advancing their ability to become more humanlike than previously. Even new AI detection tools may not be able to identify AI from human efforts, as new research indicates.
As of 2024, the sophistication of AI-generated books and articles is rising rapidly. Of major concern is that AI-generated research poses ethical concerns in academia, where originality is paramount, making it challenging to produce truly undetectable work. But it is also a concern for anyone who is a professional writer or aspires to be one, as well as MFA programs in colleges.
In two separate studies, participants who were not trained poetry readers failed to recognize AI-generated poems at a rate higher than chance (46.6%, N= 16,340). Notably, when asked to identify the author of a poem, participants were more likely to respond that a person rather than an AI wrote it.
AI-generated poems were mistaken for human-written poetry because they scored higher on rhythm and elegance. Due to the similarity between human and AI poetry, participants may have confused the simplicity of AI poetry with human complexity.
