My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ai-writing-chatgpt-human-voice-creative-personality-b2908522.html
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Alongside my writing career, I also teach non-fiction writing at University College London (UCL), where I try to persuade my students that aspiring to be a writer in the time of ChatGPT is not entirely insane. ... .. I wanted to demonstrate this to my students, so I devised an experiment that would, I hoped, reveal the limitations of AI. I asked them to read two pieces. One was a column I had written, ... .. The other was generated by ChatGPT, ....
I printed both pieces in the same font and format. The intention was simple: to show that, for all its seductive convenience, AI-produced writing was proficient but hollow. I wanted my students to compare .. ... Any vaguely intelligent reader could, I assumed, see that my piece was superior in every way. That, at least, was the plan.
... To my surprise, the majority told me the AI version was better. They said it was better argued, more clearly structured, more ambitious in scope, and, this was the real kick in the guts, a few even told me it was more personal than my own. That hurt: a piece generated by AI was more “personal” than one written by an actual person.
When I revealed that the first piece was mine and the second AI-generated, there was a pause as they processed this. Many looked genuinely shocked – and some were probably wondering if they could get a refund on the money they had spent on their degree. ....