AI vs Actual writers

[SwordSong]

That's a deeply intriguing and relevant idea—one that touches on the intersection between consciousness, artificial intelligence, and aesthetics. Let's unpack it

 

[FieryLou]

Without question, the prospect of orchestrating a literary competition in which artificial intelligence and human authorship are subjected to identical creative provocations, and wherein the subsequent compositions are evaluated under conditions of deliberate anonymity, presents itself as a profoundly intriguing intellectual exercise. Such an arrangement would not only neutralize the habitual preconceptions that readers might otherwise harbor toward the provenance of a text, but would also elevate the act of judgment into a pure encounter with language, style, and resonance, disentangled from the biases of authorship.


On one side of this duality stands the AI, a construct of algorithms and probabilities, drawing upon an immense corpus of linguistic patterns and stylistic precedents, capable of producing writing that is, by its very nature, polished, syntactically fluent, and meticulously cohesive. On the other side stands the human writer, whose words carry the ineffable tincture of lived experience, emotional immediacy, and idiosyncratic perception — qualities that cannot be reduced to mere computation, yet which imbue language with its most enduring vitality.


The insertion of blind voting as the decisive mechanism introduces a fascinating paradox: the readers, deprived of contextual knowledge regarding origin, are compelled to engage with the writing in its rawest and most elemental form. Their selections would then reveal, not who is objectively “better,” but rather what qualities of writing strike the deepest chord — whether it be the elegance of construction, the persuasive rhythm of cadence, or the subtle spark of originality that whispers unmistakably of human consciousness.


In the final analysis, the outcome of such a contest would not function as a definitive adjudication of superiority between man and machine, but rather as a luminous exploration of convergence — a demonstration of how algorithmic generation and human imagination, though born of utterly different essences, may at times converge so closely that the boundary between the artificial and the authentic becomes not a wall, but a veil, gossamer-thin and endlessly fascinating.

 

[FieryLou]

?

 

[Macha]

We can try oneshot

I love oneeshota.

 

[A_the_king_of_all]

We can try a short story that isn't anything more than pg 13 because most Ai's don't write much over pg13

 

[Deleted member 166465]

I got nothing to say about this.
I am just here to remind everyone of that most famous Roman citizen: Biggus Dickus.

 

[mythosandmagic]

I got nothing to say about this.
I am just here to remind everyone of that most famous Roman citizen: Biggus Dickus.

And his wife: Incontinentia

 

[Deleted member 166465]

And his wife: Incontinentia

Is good to know another man that know the empire history.
Heil cesar.

 

[Vicious]

What if we have competition where Ai and humans are given the same prompt to write. Then readers vote without knowing which one is AI or human. Would you guys be down for that?

I think the biggest determining factor isn't necessarily who does it or how. It's the work itself.

AI was trained on lots and lots and lots of manuscripts when it comes specifically to writing. Which means its really good at executing a nice, neat, tight little 3 act story with perfect climax-resolution.

The problem with that is it's boring. And it reads like everything we've read for the last 200 years in writing. AI's super good at copying hemmingway, it's really bad at breaking conventional rules of writing to do something unique with the words.

Sure you can get it to write passable serial fiction and books, but there's just something interesting and odd about the silly spontaneity of humans behind the pen. Prime example- I'll pick on me so I don't have to call anyone else out here- I have a very "stream of consciousness" writing style because I'm autistic. A lot of my main characters are autistic as well.

And I'm like SUPER auti. Like "random eye movements when I think" and "Mr. Random Facts Man" auti. I genuinely write my characters thought looping. I've genuinely never seen AI successfully do that.

Those little quirks make us who we are and each individual writer who they are. AI can fake a lot of things but it can't fake respect and your fingerprints as a writer. Not well at least. Cus a real person might do anything in a given moment. AI uses predictive reasoning to decide it's next moment.

Predictable has always been boring.

 

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

We can try oneshot

I suspect it could get away with it for one to two chapters, but much longer that and you would definitely know the difference.

yeah iwas thinking one-shot

 

[DOOL]

What if we have competition where Ai and humans are given the same prompt to write. Then readers vote without knowing which one is AI or human. Would you guys be down for that?

You could tell which was an AI because of the dash trick

 

[Our_Lady_in_Twilight]

AI can write about the golden sands, crashing waves, and swaying palm trees of an island shore, but only a real writer can include the decomposed hulk of a beached whale rotting in the hot sun.

Or indeed an otter girl in a bikini

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Or indeed an otter girl in a bikini

*the otter blushes and hugs her tail*

That too. ?

 

[Anarchy666]

I think we'll be fine. AI can be used to pump out a few episodes when supply is outrun by demand in a pinch, be useful in other/similar ways, and they will still need human writers to come up with truly original ideas. AI can only ever reinterpret something a human has already made. In fact, I've been talking to Chat GPT the past few days. It seems to think the most likely scenario involving AI will be somewhere in between worst-case and best-case, and it likely won't be superintelligent for another few decades, if at all.

 

[sage61]

To me, both is good as long as it's edited. I used AI to help me refine my sentences, and made it much more readable than my blocks of texts that is more telling than showing.

AI usually mixed up the names of characters, settings and environment after a couple of chapters, so you can catch it on the go. Plus the plot would run from the initial settings after a while. So, you'll just end up reading a train that goes out of track and is extremely confusing to immerse after a few chapters in.

 

[Worthy39]

Not now. Not today.

Because the AI still overplays its hand — too many em-dashes, too much rule of three, too eager to mimic the mess without understanding the heat beneath it.

It can echo the shape of feeling — heartbreak, awe, defiance — but it doesn’t ache. Not really. It knows the language of fire but not the burn.

Give us the same prompt, sure. Let us line up at the starting line like it's fair.
But the human might pause — reach for a memory, miss a beat, rewrite a sentence seventeen times until it hurts right.

The AI? It finishes fast. Clean. Clever. And cold.

So not now. Not today.
Not until it forgets the rules.
Not until it wants something.

Clanker.

 

[Wenlock]

Let alone the writing skill, I think AI would have trouble with creativity. Humans can get creativity to the point of absurdism but AI will play it safe. So I guess that's one way to distinguish

 

[Worthy39]

In all seriousness, there may be one or two AI that could pull this off, but not without HEAVY human input into the settings. I know a few writers who basically turn writing into engineering, and specifically program AI to write in a very specific style, and follow a very strict set of rules. But even then, you can still usually tell it's AI, but at least it reads pretty well.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Just sped read this and while most agreed, nothing was done. Love you guys. Now, what's the prompt so we can actually do this months later?

 

[Anonjohn20]

Unless a human edits the AI, it'll be pretty easy to identify by the excessive use of em dashes (—). I sometimes have to open my grammar books from middle school to make sure I'm using them right, but AI will spit them out nonstop.