Study claims that "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably." WaPo, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and others picked it up. Here's my response. (theluddite.org)

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Though wrapped in the aesthetic of science, this paper is a pure expression of the AI hype's ideology, including its reliance on invisible, alienated labor. Its data was manufactured to spec to support the authors' pre-existing beliefs, and its conclusions are nothing but a re-articulation of their arrogance and ideological impoverishment.

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[-] theluddite@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

That's exactly why the series is about papers on Nature.com. They're trading on the prestige of the domain to spinoff various portfolio journals and companies get to go to potential customers saying, "according to a study published in Nature..."

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