Oh, großartig, die Leser bevorzugten KI-geschriebene Kurzgeschichten von meinem Lieblingsautor in einem Blind Test | Wir sind kollektiv in der Identifizierung von KI -Schreiben.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/oh-great-readers-preferred-ai-written-short-stories-over-one-by-my-favorite-author-in-a-blind-test/
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„I hate that AI can do this,“ is my opinion for most every value of „this“ that I’ve seen in the past couple years. It’s also what fantasy author Mark Lawrence said after pitting AI writing against flash fiction written by award-winning authors and finding that not only can readers not reliably tell the difference in a blind test, they also preferred the AI-written stories.
Earlier this month, Lawrence composed a quiz on his blog (which you can still take) with eight very short fantasy stories of about 350 words, asking readers to rate each story’s quality and whether they believe it was composed by a human or AI.
Four stories were written by AI and four by other well-known and award-winning authors. According to [Lawrence’s results post](https://mark—lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-authors-results-part-2.html), the aggregate decision of the 964 voters correctly judged the origin of three stories, got three others wrong, and couldn’t meaningfully decide on the remaining two, which is not an inspiring success rate. It’s armchair statistics, but that’s not a *small* sample size.“
Why are people so weeeh weh about a.i writing when it obviously has tremendous benefits, like speed of writing through prompt, finding the right phrases and words you can’t think of yourself (especially as a non native-English speaker) etc. Plus you don’t have to literally copy it 1 on 1 but use it more as a basis.
I think that is honestly pretty awesome. It goes to show how much „AI“ has progressed in a short time. I’m not too interested in this ridiculous doom and gloom that has taken over Reddit.
I’m very interested to see what will happen over the next 10 years. Maybe we’ll all be able to express ourselves much more creatively, thanks to „AI“.
It does however have downsides too, lots of AI generated turds out there. Hopefully we can also get some proper detection that can remove it from places such as Reddit. Generated content shouldn’t be a thing on a forum. Generated content should also be clearly marked, so everyone can see that it is.
It’s not that readers are awful at identifying AI, but rather that AI has improved so much that it can hardly be discerned from human writing except by the sharpest and keenest minds
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A lot of people prefer Taylor Swift to actual music … People like common demonstrator slop. What’s new?
This seems explicitly like the kind of edge case test AI could succeed in though. Short form with no longer context needed, no depth of character development or storytelling required, and isolated in a list which always makes comparative analysis harder.
But also who was polled? Folks who have been using AI the past few years likely can recognize it better than those who haven’t. That’s most certainly true for images and video, seems reasonable to assume there is an „AI illiteracy“ issue with large amounts of the public.
And finally, oh well? As language models get better and better it’d be kinda silly to assume they wouldn’t be able to write enjoyable prose. A primary reason for their existence is they „contain“ massive, inhuman amounts of accumulated human knowledge and language trends in their „minds“, this should be considered a natural consequence.
This is stupid.The AI stories were at a minimum created by crafting a good and relevant prompt. He most likely also „tuned“ the output afterwards.
Basically AI at this time works because you have human directed input and human chosen output.
All of these stories were pretty bad though. I mean, none of them had anything interesting to say. Some had better sentence construction and so on, but they were all lousy.