If ChatGPT wrote this poem, would you like it more?

That’s what a new study from Pitt History and Philosophy of Science Distinguished Professor Edouard Machery suggests.

The research, published in Nature, found that readers who aren’t literary experts can’t distinguish between poems written by famous bards and those created by ChatGPT, which was instructed to impersonate influential wordsmiths including Shakespeare, Ginsberg and Dickinson.

“Like AI-generated paintings and faces,” Machery found, “AI-generated poems are now ‘more human than human.’”

Here’s a (human-written) poetic interpretation of the study’s findings:

Better rhythm than the poet, it’s consistent.

A metronome, pacing pentameters in perfect

time. A 3D printer, tracing a flawless structural

quality. Moving with each word toward beautiful,

profound, meaningful, moving. The instrument’s'

imagery, inspiring. The contraption’s creativity—

infallible, easily interpretable, immediate—captivity.

IT DIDNT MAKE SENSE TO ME, a human writes of Ginsberg, 

in all caps, OR COME FROM SOMEONE THAT HAS FEELINGS.