Basho in the machine: Humans find attributes of beauty and discomfort in algorithmic haiku -- ScienceDaily

The gap between human creativity and artificial intelligence seems to be narrowing. Previous studies have compared AI-generated versus human-written poems and whether people can distinguish between them. Now, a study led by Yoshiyuki Ueda at Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human and Society, has shown AI's potential in creating literary art such as haiku -- the shortest poetic form in the world -- rivaling that of humans without human help. Ueda's team compared AI-generated haiku without human intervention, also known as human out of the loop, or HOTL, with a contrasting method known as human in the loop, or HITL. The project involved 385 participants, each of whom evaluated 40 haiku poems -- 20 each of HITL and HOTL -- plus 40 composed entirely by professional haiku writers.