Overview
[AI Summary]: Princeton CDH researchers Meredith Martin and Wouter Haverals published a pre-print revealing that both humans and AI systems consistently prefer human-written text over AI-generated content. Their study used a dataset inspired by Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” to test 556 people and multiple LLMs, finding that even when AI couldn’t distinguish between human and machine authorship, it still rated human writing more favorably. This suggests that qualities valued in human writing remain difficult for AI to replicate.
- Date: November 11, 2025
- Institution: Princeton Center for Digital Humanities
- Authors: Meredith Martin, Wouter Haverals
- Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831
- Support: Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI) Seed Grant Program