Wow, Who Thought It Made Sense To Compare AI To Old, Dead Poets?

A study says people like AI poetry better than human poetry but the poets they chose were the real problem

These zombies? Old dead poets. Like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Byron, Whitman, Emily Dickenson and TS Eliot. Hand-painted illustration licensed from Deposit Photos

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Sometimes, the world we live in is so bizarre I can’t even.

Apparently, a recent study found poetry readers prefer ChatGPT poetry to human poetry. And every time there’s a study about AI, the media jumps all over it because it’s good for clicks. Especially if the robots are winning.

And then they run titles like this:

• Bard or Bot? Readers prefer AI.
• AI poetry rated better than poems by humans.
• ChatGPT is a poet.

I kept seeing headlines like that. Seeing people lose their collective minds. Because omg, what’s the world coming to? What future is there for poets and poetry? What hope is there for creativity anymore?

But me? I had my doubts.

I don’t hate AI. It can do really cool things. Like spot cancer cells faster than humans. Mount Sinai is using AI with 94% accuracy to predict liver, rectum and prostate cancer. AI is helping deaf…