Differentiating Between AI and a Human Author Using Flash Fiction

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Using flash fiction to differentiate between AI and human authors.

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    > Below are 8 pieces of flash fiction, all of them ~350 words. All of them were written to the prompt: "write a piece of fiction based on 'a demon'" - for the AI there were additional very brief suggestions concerning tone &/or setting to generate variety, an example might be "make it romatic and set on a cliff top".

There are four human authors (Robin Hobb, Janny Wurts, Christian Cameron, Mark Lawrence) and Four AI pieces submitted by various AI.

you can rate then whether they are written by AI or Human, and how good they are.

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Results, please attempt the test before checking the results:

https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-ai-vs-autho...

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