The paper presents a comparative study of human and AI storytelling, using identical prompts about creating and falling in love with an artificial human. The study analyzes 250 stories authored by crowdworkers and 80 stories generated by AI models. The results show a pervasive presence of the Pygmalion myth in narratives from both humans and AI. The AI narratives were found to be more progressive in terms of gender roles and sexuality, but offered less imaginative scenarios and rhetoric than human-authored texts. The study suggests that fiction can provide insights into human and AI-based collective imagination and social dimensions.
Publication date: 20 Oct 2023
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12902
